literalHam
@literalHam

The power definitely works (like the seller turned it on for me not) but it didnt come with cables. I resigned myself to the idea that this might be a small waste of money, worth it for a decent chance at being able to watch physical media.

I do have a pdf of the user manual. A cursory amount of internet searching has taught me that my (non-smart) TV has the type of component ports which are also compatible with composite input (which the DVD player has), marked Y/V on the TV. I figure before i buy a 7 dollar composite cable, tho, I should ask cohost's older-tech fans if thats the optimal solution to connecting these two. It seems to be the intended solution as far as the TV manufacturer goes, but would i be better off in some way getting an hdmi or composite-to-component adapter, or some other solution i havent thought of?

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literalHam
@literalHam

ok! composite cable acquired! testing it out with Star Trek Nemesis, one of my two DVDs.
i n t e r e s t i n g. so i assumed that of the input option available "component" made the most sense, but i ended up with BW picture. Tried "AV" input though and that did the trick. I also had to readjust the picture, since it was set to "wide" and was stretching the image. The Romulans looked way too short. But yay! Functional DVD player!!


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unless you wanna spend way more than $7 (at which point you might as well just get a blu ray player* with actual hdmi out bc those are backwards compatible), just going with whatever's natively supported by both your tv and your player is probably your best bet!

*the best looking dvd player i've ever used is actually the ps3, the hd upscaling on that looks fantastic