Connecting a portable DVD player to TV ?

DullGreyGuy

deejaybee said:

Yep our Pana isnt in the first flush of youth either, but still looking good and working well ( touch wood )

I know you can get HDMI splitters, but dunno if they impact on picture quality etc

Splitters are for the opposite problem, where you want to split the signal from one source to two destinations (eg a TV and Projector. They won't impact the picture quality, if they are 1/10th decent, but they often mess up the HDCP handshake between devices, though you can get better ones that will work with HDCP.

To get two sources into one destination you need a switch, cheap ones tend to work more reliably because only one is connected at a time so HDCP doesn't get messed up. 

If you need multiple sources to multiple destinations then you need a matrix, they can get expensive the more connections they have and the more configurability you want. An associate used to have a "media cupboard" where the AppleTVs, UHD Bluray, Sky, HTPC, Firestick etc were going into a massive matrix connected to the 8-10 TVs/Projectors around the home so any screen could watch any of the sources. Obv these sources can only show one app or disk at a time so either people watch the same content or switch to a different source, hence the multiple AppleTVs. Bit OTT in my opinion but worked for them

flaneurs_lobster

DullGreyGuy said:

deejaybee said:

Yep our Pana isnt in the first flush of youth either, but still looking good and working well ( touch wood )

I know you can get HDMI splitters, but dunno if they impact on picture quality etc

Splitters are for the opposite problem, where you want to split the signal from one source to two destinations (eg a TV and Projector. They won't impact the picture quality, if they are 1/10th decent, but they often mess up the HDCP handshake between devices, though you can get better ones that will work with HDCP.

To get two sources into one destination you need a switch, cheap ones tend to work more reliably because only one is connected at a time so HDCP doesn't get messed up. 

If you need multiple sources to multiple destinations then you need a matrix, they can get expensive the more connections they have and the more configurability you want. An associate used to have a "media cupboard" where the AppleTVs, UHD Bluray, Sky, HTPC, Firestick etc were going into a massive matrix connected to the 8-10 TVs/Projectors around the home so any screen could watch any of the sources. Obv these sources can only show one app or disk at a time so either people watch the same content or switch to a different source, hence the multiple AppleTVs. Bit OTT in my opinion but worked for them

Maybe I'll just buy a new telly.....

Barnibonn

Yes, you can connect the Sony portable DVD player to your TV using the Audio and Video OUT ports, but your TV must have compatible AV inputs (usually red, white, and yellow RCA ports). If it doesn’t, you’ll need an AV-to-HDMI converter to use one of the HDMI ports.

TimeLord1

Still a good seller because of cost the pirates still produce a lot of online only content to dvd. And some online content is very edited down so getting the original version old format is the only choice.