no aux input on home theatre system

pedrothefish

i have a quite old panasonic home theatre system without an aux or line input, and when the grand children come round they want to play their ipods and mp3s through it.
can i connect their cable to the earphone socket and play it through there? or is there another way round this problem.
thanks in advance

OK_Sauce

No, that'll be an output only. Do you have the model number handy?

pedrothefish

its a Panasonic SC-HT530 DVD Home Theatre Sound System
thanks for the reply

OK_Sauce

Have you used both the VCR and TV red and white sockets? If not you could use a lead like this. Plugged in to one of the spare inputs.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/3-5mm-Jack-Phono-Audio-Cable/dp/B000Q6LSWM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298729502&sr=8-1

If they are both used, and you have, say a VCR plugged into the VCR input socket, then you could use the same lead to plug into the input of the actual VCR and then select AV3 or whatever it's called on the VCR and play the MP3 'through' the VCR.

Richie-from-the-Boro

What else have you already connected ?

If for example you have nothing connected re-use the TV [ red & white } plugs for the iPOD

pedrothefish

WOW that is brilliant, problem solved for 0.90 pence in less than an hour!!
i have a spare input so i will use that
thank you both very much

OK_Sauce

Glad it's all sorted!

Hammyman

Whatever you do, start with the volume level on the iPod on the minimum as they are line level inputs and you're using an amplified output on the iPod.