How do you connect a dvd player up to the telly?

[milkmonster]

My partner's left me. There'll be a few posts on here asking for tech advice he used to deal with!

His telly was a humoungous Barco monitor god knows 50" screen. He took some wire off it so now it doesn' work. He couldn't take it with him it weighs a ton.

I've set up my little portable telly on top of it, followed autosetup instructions for half an hour and got ITV.

And that's all.



However, I have no idea how to connect up the dvd player to the telly. I've plugged the dvd wire into the back of the telly, pressed play on the player, discs running but no picture on the telly.

Please help! He's a complete for doing this as I only want the telly/dvd player to work so our 8 month old baby can watch her cbeebies.

Summarily, please can you explain thicko-fashion as I'm thick how to connect dvd payer to telly and get a working picture.

Thankyou!

[gigglewitchyouamerrychristmas]

we put ariel wire into dvd then similar wire from dvd to telly. our telly is a bit ancient tho.

good riddance to him, eh?

[milkmonster]

OK, I just figured which wire goes from the DVD player into the telly.

Now I've snapped off the telly aerial though so I can't get a picture!

I think you can use the DVD player as an aerial - does anyone know if that's correct if so what's the name of the wire I need to buy?

Thanks!

His loss giglewitch, he has a gorgeous little bubba, if she can't melt his stony heart then no-one will!

[Ubergeekian]

It's easiest if you have a SCART cable - that's the one with the big rectangular-but-a-bit-squinty-at-the-end plugs. It's a direct video connection, so you don't need to tune and, if your telly is clever enough (most are) it will sense an incoming SCART signal and show it.