Ah, technology.
Jan. 3rd, 2010 12:31 pmAfter a great deal of trial and error and screwing around behind a TV stand with a 150 pound Sharp 32" set set parked on top of it, I have determined that I didn't need to buy either of the fancy schmancy cables I bought at Radio Shack yesterday, which means taking them back later.
I haven't recorded a show since before I moved out of the Oakland apartment Gaius and I shared and the VCR/DVD player combo is going to recycle land, so I finally routed the cable from the cable box directly back into the TV set. The cable signal is coming through, the remote is doing what it's supposed to, all looks good. The DVD player plugs directly into three color coded jacks in the back of the TV set. All I need to do to watch DVDs is switch the TV set from Channel 3 to "Input 1" which is just below "Channel 2".
Only somehow I managed to accidentally child-lock the DVD into the player. Evidently (after digging through the manual to figure out WTF "standby mode" means, not finding it and having to go on the internet with the model number), I can't put it IN standby mode. I have to leave the player on with nothing running for at least half an hour to get it to kick into standby mode, then press the appropriate sequence of buttons to unlock it.
Honestly, if I didn't have to sew, I'd read a book.
EDIT. Well, THAT didn't work. Nor did that, that, that or that.
EDIT: Or that. DVD player is unplugged for awhile. We'll see if that returns it to any default settings. If not, I'm stumped.
EDIT: It's going back - with the DVD inside it and a demand from the store that sold it to me for a replacement of both the player and the DVD.
I haven't recorded a show since before I moved out of the Oakland apartment Gaius and I shared and the VCR/DVD player combo is going to recycle land, so I finally routed the cable from the cable box directly back into the TV set. The cable signal is coming through, the remote is doing what it's supposed to, all looks good. The DVD player plugs directly into three color coded jacks in the back of the TV set. All I need to do to watch DVDs is switch the TV set from Channel 3 to "Input 1" which is just below "Channel 2".
Only somehow I managed to accidentally child-lock the DVD into the player. Evidently (after digging through the manual to figure out WTF "standby mode" means, not finding it and having to go on the internet with the model number), I can't put it IN standby mode. I have to leave the player on with nothing running for at least half an hour to get it to kick into standby mode, then press the appropriate sequence of buttons to unlock it.
Honestly, if I didn't have to sew, I'd read a book.
EDIT. Well, THAT didn't work. Nor did that, that, that or that.
EDIT: Or that. DVD player is unplugged for awhile. We'll see if that returns it to any default settings. If not, I'm stumped.
EDIT: It's going back - with the DVD inside it and a demand from the store that sold it to me for a replacement of both the player and the DVD.