Watching DVD's Outside

I would just get a small Blu Ray DVD player and plug in the HDMI connector. They make pretty small Blu Ray players now, and they are relatively cheap.

wa8yxm wrote:

AllegroD wrote:
A cable outlet will give you cable or OTA signal but not DVD. Do you also have an HDMI port. If not, the suggestions above are your best choices.

I don't like to argue but in MY RV there are 6 places I can plug in a TV, ALL SIX get DVD via the RF modulator in the box of many buttons.

ALL SIX

DVD players do not usually have HDMI out. Blue Ray players do.

Sorry! You are correct.

My garage DVD player will push video to the outside tv as well as the garage tv. Through coax. Factory standard.

The outside tv will work well in the evening or later, but if the sun is on it, forget it.

AllegroD wrote:
A cable outlet will give you cable or OTA signal but not DVD. Do you also have an HDMI port. If not, the suggestions above are your best choices.

I don't like to argue but in MY RV there are 6 places I can plug in a TV, ALL SIX get DVD via the RF modulator in the box of many buttons.

ALL SIX

DVD players do not usually have HDMI out. Blue Ray players do.

If you hook up the DVD player that is inside the coach, you will not be able to control the player from outside. The simplest approach is to buy another player for outside. DVD players are cheap. You may even want to upgrade to a Blu-Ray player.

A cable outlet will give you cable or OTA signal but not DVD. Do you also have an HDMI port. If not, the suggestions above are your best choices.

Well I'd use a additional TV with built in DVD player more than likely, but..

Odds depending on your answer to Some questions:

IN the RV are there two TV's (or more) IF so odds are the outside socket is fed by the same feed as the REMOTE TV (The one farthest fromn the source selector switch That may be just a wall plate with a switch?

2: Do you have a Single Source switch (the wall plate) or a matrix Swtich (Box of many buttons). Odds are with the BOMB the otside TFV is "TV-3" if you have onem else TV-2 (along with the remote TV)

3: DO you CHANGE inputs on your main TV when watching a DVD (May not matter) or do you watch on Channel 3/4.

IF you MUST change to either A/V in or HDMI in then your odds of watching the inside DVD player on an outside tv just went DOWN!!!!!! like next to zero without modification)

Advise

Modifications:
For DVD only, a simply RF modulator can be wired up, along perhaps with an A/B switch .. (Note this is built into the BOMB) on the wall plate with the plate OFF the wall looking at the rear cables down

1(ANT) do not mess.. 2(Park cable) 3:TV-2

If you want to be able to watch a DVD outside while darling spouse watches something else inside, remove the cable from TV-2 and hook it to the COMMON (Switched) lead on the A/B switch, A goes to the port just disconnected from. B to the RF Modulator's RF out (DVD's are Binary).

if you only want to watch the same program on ALL tv's then disconnect from the CENTER (Park Cable) and run a jumper from there to the Switch common,
A gets the cable just disconnected and B again the line from the RF modulator.

IF you have a BLUE RAY (HDMI out) procedure is the same, Modulator more expensive.

"Standard" TV/DVD players are connected by an HDMI cable NOT the "cable/antenna" coaxial cable (round connector). You can buy a 25' HDMI cable that you could run from one device to the other.

Many of the RV all-in-one units use some other type of connection.

You will need to have a small DVD or BluRay player to use with the TV outside. The audio will play through the speakers in the TV.

We upgraded to flat screen TV, they have built in DVD players.

A little Sony Bluray player should make your situation work, but what do ya do for speakers?