How do you hook up a portable DVD player to a TV?
While portable DVD players are nice on their own, they can also be hooked up to a TV set in order to enjoy the DVD without straining your eyes at a small screen. Portable DVD players are just as easy to connect to modern televisions as their stationary counterparts, and they produce equally good picture quality. Locate the input jacks on the TV. The jacks, also known as hook-ups, are usually located in the back of the TV. Some newer and high-end models include a set of jacks located on the side or the front of the TV in order to temporarily hook up a device such as a portable DVD player. Many TV sets have the jacks color-coded in yellow, white and red. Buy a converter if the TV set does not have the now-standard input jacks. Retailers, such as Radioshack, carry a selection (see Resources below). Many older televisions do not have these input jacks, and they may instead have a coaxial cable link that requires a coaxial cable converter in order to receive signals from your portable DVD p
