competence eludes me

[low_delta]

A couple of weeks ago I asked for help with my electronics. A couple of you suggested an A/B switch for RCA plugs. I had forgotten that my VCR had RCA jacks, so that was the suggestion I needed. I finally got around to hooking it up and I got nothing.

The VCR apparently doesn't put signal out through those jacks. It still works through the coaxial cable, but not the RCA.

Before I tried this, I had to unhook the coax and attach the RCA cords from the DVD player. Now that doesn't even work. I get no picture from the DVD player, even though I have it set up like I did last week.

I imagine there's something simple that I'm missing with regards to the DVD player, and something complex, like some settings on the VCR, but I really have no idea. And since I can no longer even connect the coax to the back of the TV, we are completely without moving pictures.

Comments

[dwivian]

Can you provide model information for your VCR, DVD, and TV? I'll work out a wiring chart from that.

[starlazdaze.livejournal.com]

I had a problem like that after we moved...I hooked up the dvd player and got no picture...

turns out I had the yellow plug in the white hole and the white plug in the yellow hole...yellow and white look alike in the dark area behind the tv.

I'm seriously electro-challenged and this is probably useless information, but I figured I'd share my "duh!" moment with the hope that it might help in some strange way...

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

It's not competence so much as video magic. If you can, do take picis of the backs of the sources and the sink (in english, please post photos of the output jacks on the backs of the VCR and DVD, and the back of the TV).

I've done a fair number of these things, it can be daunting, but once worked out it's usually easy. Do use a nice, bright flashlight so you can tell the yellows from the whites, etc, and be sure you're not plugging "RGB" or composite outputs into plain-video inputs (and vice versa).