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03-01-2009, 11:21 PM
Alright, I needs me some help.
I live in an apartment and have cable access through wall outlets. In the living room the cable works fine connected to a newish TV. BUT I want cable in one of my bedrooms. The cable installer dude said all the wall outlets work now that I'm hooked up. So here's the details.
In the bedroom I have an old Orion TV/VCR combo. The VCR part stopped working long ago and I also lost the original remote. I bought a universal remote and it works fine. I used a coaxial cable and plugged into the cable outlet and into the back of the TV. No cable. I press the "input" button on the remote with no luck and have tried all channels. All I get is a blue screen. I've used the PS2 with the TV no problem. So today I bought a DVD player thinking I could hook up the cable through that. I got a basic $30 Magnavox DVD player. I figure I'll hook up the coaxial cable to the player and then the player to the TV. There is no damn coaxial hookup on the DVD player!!! There is an S video hookup, the red, white, and yellow hookups, and a digital hookup, but nothing that will plug directly into the cable wall outlet.
What do I do now? I've successfully hooked up this TV to cable wall outlets in other apartments/dorms. I don't understand why its not working now. Also, because I'm using a universal remote, I can get the TV menu to come up but am not able to select between options, the volume and channel buttons do nothing to navigate through the menu. I'm thinking there's some setting on the TV to switch it to CATV or some such crap I've read on the internet, but I donno how to access it.
Any advice? I know someone will invariably tell me to stop being a miser and go spend $50 on a basic TV with its own remote but I'd really like to avoid it.
I live in an apartment and have cable access through wall outlets. In the living room the cable works fine connected to a newish TV. BUT I want cable in one of my bedrooms. The cable installer dude said all the wall outlets work now that I'm hooked up. So here's the details.
In the bedroom I have an old Orion TV/VCR combo. The VCR part stopped working long ago and I also lost the original remote. I bought a universal remote and it works fine. I used a coaxial cable and plugged into the cable outlet and into the back of the TV. No cable. I press the "input" button on the remote with no luck and have tried all channels. All I get is a blue screen. I've used the PS2 with the TV no problem. So today I bought a DVD player thinking I could hook up the cable through that. I got a basic $30 Magnavox DVD player. I figure I'll hook up the coaxial cable to the player and then the player to the TV. There is no damn coaxial hookup on the DVD player!!! There is an S video hookup, the red, white, and yellow hookups, and a digital hookup, but nothing that will plug directly into the cable wall outlet.
What do I do now? I've successfully hooked up this TV to cable wall outlets in other apartments/dorms. I don't understand why its not working now. Also, because I'm using a universal remote, I can get the TV menu to come up but am not able to select between options, the volume and channel buttons do nothing to navigate through the menu. I'm thinking there's some setting on the TV to switch it to CATV or some such crap I've read on the internet, but I donno how to access it.
Any advice? I know someone will invariably tell me to stop being a miser and go spend $50 on a basic TV with its own remote but I'd really like to avoid it.