<p>I’ve repeatedly tried to get my General Electric brand DVD player to successfully work with the TV I purchased recently. The TV is not a top of the line model, but it should have no problem with the coming switch to DTV broadcasts. It seemed simple; the red cabe (video) in the red plug, the white cable into the white plug, and the yellow cable into the yellow plug. Nada, Zilch. “No signal” message on the screen. All these devices are digital, so why won’t the dadgummed thing work? Is it conceivable that the DVD player is outdated and therefore not compatible with DTV sets? By the way, the DVD player performed flawlessly for years with my old analog TV. Help me, Obie Wan.</p>
<p>Yellow is generally used as video, and red/white for audio, if that helps anything. It should work fine, there could be a problem with the jacks. Do you have anything else you can plug into it to make sure the jack on the TV works?</p>
<p>Can you hook up anything else to the patch cables? Few things could be wrong:</p>
<ol>
<li>cables are hooked up incorrectly.</li>
<li>cables are bad</li>
<li>TV jacks are bad</li>
<li>(most likely) make sure your video source input (on TV) is selected to the appropriate jacks.</li>
</ol>
<p>I’m presuming that your new TV is not a flat panel screen, but, rather, a standard definition TV with a digital tuner. If this is the case and the video/audio cables are connected correctly (Yellow is your video signal and the Red/White are your audio feeds), then your TV remote should have a button that allows you to cycle through your available video modes (over-the-air/cable) or your “line” or “auxiliary” input. Some TVs require you to go to the menu screens to switch between your video modes. Your new TV’s user guide should have a reference as to how you can change your video input from, say, cable to a line input for a DVD player or a VCR.</p>
<p>Your DVD player may also have an S-Video connection in the back. If your new TV has an S-Video connection, you will get a better picture by buying an S-Video cable and using that connection.</p>
<p>Thanks all. I’ll try again tonight.</p>
<p>Good luck! The electronics store people would have you think that you’ve got a real antique there with your 2002 vintage DVD player!!! It seems like every time we’ve upgraded one thing, general purchases of new, improved peripherals also follows…</p>
<p>I hear ya. Our master bedroom TV is quite old. We just replaced the DVD player and the only way we can get most stations is by putting the station number in the remote - the channel buttons skip though most of the channels and the same thing happens when you just use the up or down arrows on the remote.</p>
<p>BTW - check to make sure you have them connected to the TV’s Input. Newer TV’s also have output for connection to audio systems, etc.</p>
<p>Yes, the channel up/down buttons simply skipped through without any productive result. Finally, the the “input” button did its job. Don’t know why it didn’t work before; happily watched a DVD last night for the first time in months!</p>
<p>Yes, it’s funny [but not amusing] these days how outdated our electronics become only after a few months. I had belived that this wouldn’t be the case with TVs (an old Sharp handed down from mama lasted me through graduate school and the first year of my marriage. A second “modern” Sharp died in 2008 after 15 years of fine service). but depending on the vitality of Blu-Ray, my DVD player’s last hurrah may come sooner than I expected.</p>