My wife needs help

[126coupe]

Can anyone walk me through this, different cable box.

[Spud]

Looks like more wires than connections

The white tipped wires with the colored bands around them are the RGB (red,green,blue) video cables to your TV. The white wires with the blue tips with red and white bands go into the red and white audio jacks next to the RGB jacks. The coaxial cable is the cable/sat input I'm assuming, so attach that to the appropriate spot (not visible in photo).

Now, there is an extra set of audio (red/white) video (yellow) cables, you could stick the yellow onto the remaining video jack (next to the RGB jacks), but where-ever that video is going won't have audio...

Hope that helps..

[Targa Me]

Black wire set: Red is right audio, White is left audio and Yellow is video.
The black coaxial only goes on one place on the box, same with the power cord.
The other cord set, looks like white cable gives you a better picture quality, they look color matched or labeled. They would replace the black cable with the Yellow end.

[Zeke]

The problem looks to be not enough RCA jacks for the outputs/inputs shown. I think an s-video cable will help. Can't see the ports.

[gacook]

You have HDMI ports on that device. Ditch the RGB cables and go buy an HDMI. You'll love the difference.

[GH85Carrera]

Don't you have a 8 year old boy somewhere to help you out?

[Spud]

Originally Posted by gacook

You have HDMI ports on that device. Ditch the RGB cables and go buy an HDMI. You'll love the difference.

Good advice IF the device on the other end has an HDMI input

I'm not sure there is a HUGE advantage between HDMI and RGB (both will do HD), however the HDMI will carry audio as well as video, which may help out in this case.

[74-911]

Originally Posted by gacook

You have HDMI ports on that device. Ditch the RGB cables and go buy an HDMI. You'll love the difference.

This, assuming the device you are connecting to also has a HDMI port. All you would need is the coax cable, the power cable and an HDMI cable

[gacook]

Yes, I did make that assumption: you're both correct.

[stomachmonkey]

Determine how many HDMI inputs are on the TV.

The Composite (black RCA) are from the Sony Blu-Ray player, that should go HDMI straight into the back of the TV.

Swap signals from DVR/Blu Ray using the input feature on TV's remote.

If you have a second HDMI input on the TV then you can hook the DVR up using it but really the Composite (RGB) are perfectly fine. Whether you use Composite or HDMI to connect the devices really has more to do with the individual devices. Sometimes HDMI looks better, sometimes Composite.

Don't overpay for HDMI cables, $5 cables work just as well as $50 cables.

[Spud]

Not to pick nits, but the yellow video cable is technically called a "composite" cable, the RGB cables are called "component" cables... Just FYI so you don't buy the wrong thing somewhere down the line.

[rusnak]

I love how you blame your wife.

Just kidding. My $.02 is to do two columns, input and output. Connect them by drawing lines from one to the next.

I can't see where the cables are coming from. Cable boxes allow multiple sources of audio and video input. HDMI would be the best video input, but you can use your red to red, and white to white for audio input/output.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by rusnak

I love how you blame your wife.

Just kidding. My $.02 is to do two columns, input and output. Connect them by drawing lines from one to the next.

I can't see where the cables are coming from. Cable boxes allow multiple sources of audio and video input. HDMI would be the best video input, but you can use your red to red, and white to white for audio input/output.

That's a standard FIOS Motorola QIP 7232.

The only input it takes is the signal over COAX.

Outputs are limited to what you see.

Can't be used as a "hub" so OP needs to make all other device connection either thru a media receiver/surround sound or direct to the TV.

The Composite are coming from the slim black box to the left of the DVR. That's a Sony Blu-Ray, has only Composite and HDMI out.

The reason for that is copy protection. Composite is not HD, HDMI is but passes copy protection flags, Component is also HD but since it's analog it does not pass the copy protection flags which would make illegal copying of the content easy/possible.

[rusnak]

I see coax, and the yellow plug "video" which is standard on a VCR. The red, blue, and green are not component video? Bunch of other stuff on the left.

It doesnt help at all that the OP took a crappy lazy man cell phone pic.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by rusnak

It doesnt help at all that the OP took a crappy lazy man cell phone pic.

Another 'polite' response. You're good at that. Way to go.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Another 'polite' response. You're good at that. Way to go.

And you whine way more than you actually contribute anything helfpful.