why are electronics so difficult?

[low_delta]

I spent a lot of money on speakers for my year-old stereo. I needed to replace the cheap ones I had, plus take advantage of my surround reciever. Since I was upgrading the speakers, I figured I'd better get some decent cables to transmit the sound from the CD player and DVD player. Once I got everything replaced, I couildn't get any video from the DVD player. It comes through fine from the VCR, but not the DVD. I tried everything I could think of, and even discovered a few new tricks with the reciever, but nothing helped. Then I put the old cables back they way they were, but I still get no video from the DVD player. What's up with that? It makes me wonder if something's wrong with the DVD player.

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[whorlpool.livejournal.com]

My DVD player decided to quit working last night, too.

Not happy.

[banana.livejournal.com]

Your speakers and speaker cables prevented the DVD sound from working? Surely this is impossible, unless you have re-connected something wrongly.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I know. And I can't imagine how something could be connected wrong, much less different than it was.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I had the yellow cable plugged into the light orange jack, instead of hte yellow one.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Electronics is tools fer the de-vil, I tellya!!! Nobody belieeeeves meeee!!!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Especially *my* stereo. You should hear Nine Inch Nails with my new subwoofer!

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Well... not long ago I gave Cyn a pointer to some "finesse" tools for her cell phone. Tools like that can be used to "finesse" the video... (big big hammers!)

Actually - does the reciever route video from the VCR and DVD to the TV? Or do they plug right into the TV?

Check the DVD - if it has progressive outs (etc), it might be that it's putting out a progressive output (etc) that the TV can't read.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Video goes through the reciever. I'd wonder if it was the output, but I put everything back the way it was before I started. I'm going to swap DVD players (and hope the other one works). If it works, it will tell me that something happened to the DVD player when I was messing with it. At one point, I thought I had it when I discovered the way to switch the input on teh reciever from analog to digital to optical. Didn't help, though.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I had the yellow cable plugged into the light orange jack, instead of hte yellow one.