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  • FordPrefect
    Back to school :(:(:(
    • Mar 2002
    • 1053

    #1

    Dvd.....yay

    For Christmas, my dad bought a DVD player to put in our living room. It was a Sony Dream DVD box, so it had a subwoofer, and 5 mid-ranges; to use for surround sound.

    So me and my friend hooked everything up, and then he found out he could spend the night. We didn't have any DVD's, so we just listened to music. It is really nice

    So I called up my dad, and asked him to pick up a couple DVD's from the video rental place. When he came home, we hooked up the video cable (it was confusing, because we have an old TV, and it doesn't have the yellow red and white plugs. I forgot what they are called.), and the DVD player has a few video output holes. We had to do it like we did the N64, we put the plugs in the holes for the VCR.

    So to use whatever is hooked up to the VCR, be it an N64 or DVD player, you have to have the VCR to be on channel "L", start to play a VHS tape, and then push stop. The screen turns blue. Then you simply turn whatever is hooked up to the VCR on, and it should work.

    But whenever a non-static image was on the screen, it would start to play, then slightly fade, then go back to that blue screen. A few seconds later, it would slightly fade back in, then show the picture. It does this at a fairly regular rate.

    It doesn't do this for static images though, like the starting screen for some DVD's. Does anyone know anything about this? I am waiting for a response from Sony about this problem, also.

    But the audio is great, I'm listening to music right now.
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  • SpongeBobSquarePants
    I'm back!
    • Jan 2002
    • 3296

    #2
    Bro u need to radio shake and pick up a rf modulater pretty simple you plug it up to your older tv and then plug the red yellow and white cords in to it and it works there about 30 bucks and u can alos buy them at besbuy

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    • slateman
      Registered User
      • Oct 2001
      • 1346

      #3
      OK: So you plugged your new DVD player into your VCR that was plugged into the TV. And now the movie is fading in and out but the volume is fine. SpongeBobSquarePants is right.

      THe reason it does that is so you can't record the DVD to a tape (copyright laws and such )
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      • Jonno06
        AKA Jon-no wang
        • Jan 2002
        • 4392

        #4
        i need that stupid rf adapter for my new jvc dvd player..in my room..w0ot!!!

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        • digitard
          DigiWang .. Special Ed
          • Nov 2002
          • 1678

          #5
          Its the macrovision (dvd) encoding process ... DVD players cannot run though any type of passthrough, they have to be connected directly to the TV source.

          Go to radioshack like they said and get an RCA to RF adapter (Those plugs are RCA by the way)

          Sincerely,
          Dave K
          Its a wakeup call for the Nintendo generation
          GregHastingsPaintball 3 is coming

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          • FordPrefect
            Back to school :(:(:(
            • Mar 2002
            • 1053

            #6
            Alright, thanks. I saw a commercial for those RF adapters while I was waiting for replies, too.

            digitard, yeah, RCA. Thanks
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            3-D Pong's bro!

            Originally posted by Restola
            Why can't I just be in charge of the world?
            Captain, Tremor

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            • digitard
              DigiWang .. Special Ed
              • Nov 2002
              • 1678

              #7
              No problem ... in my 22 years of Life I've destroyed about every piece of electronics and had to figure out what it was to fix it ..lol

              Which reminds me, I need to replace the RCA cable inside my turntables.

              Sincerely,
              Dave
              Its a wakeup call for the Nintendo generation
              GregHastingsPaintball 3 is coming

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              • FordPrefect
                Back to school :(:(:(
                • Mar 2002
                • 1053

                #8
                Why I love AO

                ... Because I got the information I needed already, already got the part, already hooked it up, and am already watching MIB II before Sony replied.
                AIM, Yahoo messenger and  IRC=FordPrefectAO.  ICQ=160223684, and  my ICQ nick is FordPrefectAO.
                3-D Pong's bro!

                Originally posted by Restola
                Why can't I just be in charge of the world?
                Captain, Tremor

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                • SpongeBobSquarePants
                  I'm back!
                  • Jan 2002
                  • 3296

                  #9
                  TURE AO is the greatest thats where i get all my help thanks AO

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