Hooking up the DVD Player on Concertone

[RedPondRanch]

Can anyone out there tell me as simply as possible how to hook up the DVD player on the ZX500 to my television? When we put a DVD in the player, it obviously recognizes it, because we can hear the audio coming from the Concertone speakers, but we can't seem to pick out the right wires in that HUGE bundle to hook up to the television. Help!

Thanks!

[Shekinah]

Hey RedPondRanch,
Without knowing the particular DVD player or TV, there's an element of guesswork, However....
In order for the DVD player to 'Talk' to the TV there are some basic plugs and some advanced plugs depending on the quality/cost etc of the units. In the most basic system (which works just fine) you have three phono sockets on both units. These are colored YELLOW for video picture signal and RED and WHITE for audio left and right.
They are grouped together and sometimes marked with 'in' and out' signage.
On the TV use the three marked 'in' and on the DVD player use the three marked 'out'. If there are no in and out signs just go ahead and connect them up.
On the TV (remote) you may have a control marked 'Source' which will ask where the signal is coming from (ie the DVD player) just press it until you scroll to 'Composite' This should work but go slowly through the alternatives until you find the correct one(ie you'll see the picture and hear the sound....simple!!!!!
If your problem is the speaker wires being mis-connected and you have surround sound (five speakers) you'll have to be more specific.
Hope it works - if not come back.
Shekinah

["007"]

Welcome RedPondRanch to irv2.
Do you have a TV with a HDMI port on it or do you have a port into your Concertone.
Hook DVD into TV and feed audio from TV to your Concertone unit.
Check out this LINK # 1O3 post.

[RedPondRanch]

....but there is a huge bundle of wires with multiple ends that kind of all look alike coming out of the back of the Concertone!

The television is a plain, old vanilla Orion. It has two input plugs, one white and one yellow. That's it. We've tried plugging in the various white/yellow plugs coming from the Concertone to no avail. The Concertone is reading the DVD (we can hear the movie just fine) but apparently the Concertone is not communicating with the television.

Is there something that tells us which wires are for hooking up different types of peripherals?

Thanks!

[Engineer Guy]

The Orion TV definitely sounds 'Old School', as I have a few items of. The RCA Jacks are very likely inputs. Yellow is Video. White is Audio In, but Mono. If there also was a Red RCA Jack, the Audio In would be Stereo. Whatever you plug into the Orion and get to work will be in Monaural Audio.

The Orion inputs likely become 'live' only when you switch it from 'TV' to 'Video', either via a button on the TV Front Panel, or by a Remote. These 2 Jacks were built in to play Video & Mono Audio from early Video Recorders.

Most all newer A/V equipment continues to have RCA Jack Outputs that work in parallel with newer A/V Outputs, like HDMI. See if you can locate the Yellow and White RCA Output Jacks on the Concertone. Connect them to the Orion. Figure out how to switch the Orion to play Video input. You'll then be able to watch a DVD, but only 1 Audio Channel will be heard in the Orion. Turn down the Orion and listen to the higher quality Audio via the Concertone.

["007"]

Radio Shack would have RF-Module what you need I use it on my DVD PLAYER when a disk is placed in player signal will switch to TV.
Take a look in Quick Tips item #2 of DVD installation think part number is there.

[RedPondRanch]

Thanks so much for your responses, especially Engineer Guy and 007. You give me hope! I'll give it a try and see what happens!

Thanks again!