two tvs off one dvd player

We will more then likely be going back down this weekend. I will take pics of the tvs. I know that right next to the radio/dvd there is several different plug ins built inside the cabinet, I can also take off the front panel on the cabinet and see what all is going on under there as well.

Okay, in the front room you have a flat panel TV and a Radio/DVD player built in a cabinet.

In the rear you have a flat panel TV with a built in DVD player, which does not seem to be any input connection.

There is a coax cable connection by the rear TV. You will need a cable from the wall connection to the TV.

Up front you need to determine if there is any other connection other than the built in player to the TV.

I'm having a hard time explaining this not knowing what else is in the front cabinet for the TV equipment. Normally an RV will have a basic RF connection outside in a cabinet to feed the campground cable to your TV. The built in DVD/Radio has an RF output cable or a HDMI cable. If you have an RF cable from the DVD player, there is normally a box with selection buttons on the front and RF connectors on the back. There are normally three inputs on the back and three outputs. The inputs are CABLE, ANTENNA and AUXILLARY. There are normally three out puts, FRONT TV, REAR TV and AUX.

Most TVs only have one RF input connection, the newer TVs have several connections but only one RF connector there for there has to be someway to connect different sources. The installation instruction have examples of various methods of connecting all the different components.

In an RV, there are usually two TVs and there for a BOMB or several AB switches built into one box to connect different things to different TVs.

You can use any splitter to connect the DVD player to the front TV and to the cable going to the rear TV.

This has gotten complicated, I'm sure someone here can explain it better than I did but basically it is just like in your home except the splitters/A-B switches are al built into one box.

If you still have questions and you know anyone who has an RV, ask them to show you how they have theirs hooked up or PM me and I'll try and help by phone(I'll even call you if you want.

If the DVD feeds the tv with an RCA cable:



All you have to do is buy 3 y-adapters (female on all 3 ends):



And 2 RCA cables. Instead of the dvd going to the tv, it will go into the single end of the y. One of the new cables goes from one y back to the original TV, the other goes from the other y to the new tv.

You basically have to split the signal from the disc player to both screens, use a common cable that serves both screen locations, or use a cable from the main screen's OUTPUT to the bedroom screen. Three ways to accomplish the same thing.

D.E.Bishop wrote:
I have two questions, first is do you have the "box of many buttons" that the connection from the park cable goes to? The second is are you talking DVD only with no interest in BluRay?

If your answer is DVD then I have a third question, is the DVD player connected to the "BOMB"? If it is, your already connected. If not and your player has an RV out connector, hook it up to the BOMB. If it is HDMI output only you will either have to buy a little HDMI to RV converter to use the existing cable and the BOMB.

If you don't want to have the converter and you want to play BluRay disc's, run a HDMI cable however you want to the rear TV and buy a HDMI splitter so you have two HDMI outputs. Most DVD and BluRay players only have one output.

The easy way out is buy another BluRay player.

My family wanted to be able to view the same movie on both of our sets and I went for the splitter and 45 foot cable run under and through the RV.

All the equipment is available on line at reasonable costs. You can search for my posts regarding the running of the cable and the installation of the HDMI cable.

Ok just bare with me cause I am VERY new to this camper stuff and I am not sure what some of the stuff you mentioned even is lol :? First what is the box of many buttons? I am not needing to have blue ray on them, normal DVD is just fine with us. The tv in the bedroom has a built in DVD player made into the tv, where the one in the living room does not but is hooked up to the built in radio/dvd player.

The one in the living room is mounted to a pivot arm so I can look next time I am there to see if it has an HDMI port, the one in the bedroom is flush wall mounted so I will have to take it down to see for that one. The only thing I can see visually that the one in the bedroom is hooked to is just power. There is a place in the ceiling to hook cable but nothing is hooked to it.

I wouldnt imagine it would take much to run any kind of cable from the one in the bedroom to the built in unit in the living area as they are so close to one another. I know a little bit about hooking up electronics and so does my fiance but I have never tried to stream the same picture on to two tvs before. Closest my fiance has done to that is hooking up a splitter at home to one of our dish network boxes, to play on a tv we had down in our basement. So any newbie help you can give me I do really appreciate it.

Really just wanting to be able to have the same thing playing on both tvs as the one in the living room is linked to the surround sound all through the camper and when we have the kids with us at the camper, at night when we have the tvs on it would be easier so everyone can hear the tv and not have one playing one thing and the other something else and having to have the volume so low on each tv.

I have two questions, first is do you have the "box of many buttons" that the connection from the park cable goes to? The second is are you talking DVD only with no interest in BluRay?

If your answer is DVD then I have a third question, is the DVD player connected to the "BOMB"? If it is, your already connected. If not and your player has an RV out connector, hook it up to the BOMB. If it is HDMI output only you will either have to buy a little HDMI to RV converter to use the existing cable and the BOMB.

If you don't want to have the converter and you want to play BluRay disc's, run a HDMI cable however you want to the rear TV and buy a HDMI splitter so you have two HDMI outputs. Most DVD and BluRay players only have one output.

The easy way out is buy another BluRay player.

My family wanted to be able to view the same movie on both of our sets and I went for the splitter and 45 foot cable run under and through the RV.

All the equipment is available on line at reasonable costs. You can search for my posts regarding the running of the cable and the installation of the HDMI cable.

If the living room tv has outputs, you can run a feed pretty easily to the inputs of the other tv. A lot of newer tv's have outputs, it would be either red/white/yellow (called rca or composite) or possibly r/g/b for video and red/white audio. There may even be an hdmi output. Really all you need is matching output and inputs (easier) or get cables converting one to the other.

How do I go about that, And what kind of cable do I need to use to do this? Both TVs are newer flat screens.

You will need to run a feed to it from the one to the other