How Pathetic Is THIS?

[Carolyn]

I put this here because it has entertainment value for all of you younger folks.

Can you believe, we bought ourselves a DVD-video player on Saturday. it is still not hooked up. Why, you may ask? Because despite instruction books in four, count 'em four languages, (none of which is Swedish, by the way), Anders and I have not been able to figure which cable goes where, so we can have the player, the TV AND the cable box all hooked up at once and use everything.

[Aussie]

Know that feeling well! We had the same problem with hooking up the VCR the first time. Lars-Göran and I sweated for several hours over the manuals before giving up (and ALMOST throwing the thing off the balcony!)

The next day, his 20 year old son came for fika, wandered over to the VCR and without consulting the manual, hooked it up and set it all up in 2 minutes. Sheesh!

So get onto Anders' son! ;D

[JerseyGirl]

;D I think it would work like this:

Cable from the wall goes into the input of the cable box.

Then the plug outputting from the cable box goes to the DVD-video player.

The the plug outputting from the DVD player goes to the TV.

That's how I would try it if I were to guess. That way you can tape a video without worrying about what channel you are watching on the TV, and the DVD-VCR has the same access tot he cable box as the TV should.

It's worth a try I suppose! And if that doesn't work, then I haven't a clue LOL

[Carolyn]

Well, I gave it a shot, but between the cable box and the DVD player, there's no markings that say what is said in the instruction sheet, and I'm not sure which of three lines is the one that's supposed to go into the input box on the DVD player, so I guess we will wait until Sunday, when our son, Karl, comes for dinner. He's 22, this stuff should be a snap for him.

[Carolyn]

Okay, I don't know what happened and I'm not going to ask, but when I got home from the shops today, my clever husband had somehow managed to get the DVD player hooked up! Probably just enough of what my mother would have called Swedish stubbornness!