Cannot connect DVD Player to monitor.

[Coldkilla]

I want to watch movies and eventually television with my new monitor. Except when I was testing the DVD player with it, the picture was black/white/fuzzy with no audio coming out of my PC's speakers. Here is the connections, cables, and ports on all of the applances:

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By looking at this, what would you say I need in order to clearly be able to watch DVDs on my monitor with my DVD player. (I'll be plugging my Cable box also into the monitor in the near future, but wont be reactivating my cable service until I know I can get a good signal to it from the DVD appliance.)

 

[MustISO]

you should be able to use component or SVideo (composite as a last resort) just fine. What cables did you use when you were getting the messed up picture? Check to see if the DVD player needs something adjusted in the menu for outputting through component vs. the other connections.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Your yellow/white/red cables should work fine for use as component cables. They might not really be up to the right spec, but it should still work alright. Make sure you have the cables connected up correctly so the ends of the wires match up. (This will be a little more difficult than usual since the cable colors will not match the connetions on the devices) For example, use Yellow as your "green" cable, Red as your "red" cable and White as your "blue" cable.

Naturally you will not get audio from this since you're just sending video.

What kind of speakers do you have?

You'll likely need to buy another cable to connect the sound unless you have speakers with a digital coaxial input (z-5500s or something).
For other speakers this might be accomplished by hooking up to an aux input on your speakers if they have them, sending audio from the DVD player's audio output to your soundcard's line-in... or even getting an audio switch and hooking up that way.

 

[Coldkilla]

The S-video works, but the quality itsn't that great for some reason. Perhaps its because my monitor is a monitor and not a TV screen, but the monitor is 1080p and I thought it would have better quality than a VHS tape. The Component cabling works, but produces a black and white picture.

I do have z-5500's, so what exactly would I be needing to purchase in order for my sound to work? I also have an XFi-Elite Pro soundcard.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Coldkilla
The S-video works, but the quality itsn't that great for some reason. Perhaps its because my monitor is a monitor and not a TV screen, but the monitor is 1080p and I thought it would have better quality than a VHS tape. The Component cabling works, but produces a black and white picture.

I do have z-5500's, so what exactly would I be needing to purchase in order for my sound to work? I also have an XFi-Elite Pro soundcard.

Use your single yellow composite video cable to connect from the orange digital coaxial output on the DVD player to the digital coaxial input on the z-5500s. Then switch the z-5500 control pod to the Digital Coaxial input and you're good to go. Make sure the DVD player is set to send bitstream from the Digital Coaxial output.

S-video is limited to 480i resolution and your monitor might not be doing a very good job scaling and deinterlacing it.

Component might give you better results if you can get it working and set your DVD player to progressive output. Make sure you have the cables hooked up to the correct ones on both ends. (The Green, Blue, and Red on both displays and that you didn't cross any wires)

 

[Coldkilla]

I'll try and check it out tomorrow afternoon.