I can't get the dvd player on the tv. I don't know

choose the 'input' on the remote... and select the dvd

Let it finish and then click input on your remote.

where did you hooked up the connector wire coming from the dvd player, in the component input or at the RF jack of the tuner of the tv?. if you plug at the component input of the tv you will select AV1 or AV2 etc. in the settings. but if you hooked up into the RF jack you can select channel 3 in the tv but at this time you need to have manual tuned in the tv to get the signal coming from the dvd player or xbox.

HDMI cables are actually wonderfully simple to connect. Once you have connected one end to the TV and one end to the DVD player, you will simply need to change your input channel using your TV's remote. Find a Input or Video source button and press it until the screen says HDMI. Now your TV may have several HDMI ports so you may have to try a couple HDMI channels before you find the right one.

Hope that helps!

Here is a manual for your unit http://www.docs.sony.com/release/KDL40HX800_qs.pdf

As far as watching a DVD, I wasn't sure if your TV has a built in player or not. If you have a built in player simply insert the DVD and change the input channel to DVD. If you do not have a built in player, check to see how your DVD player is attached to the TV. Insert a DVD, then cycle through your inputs with your Input or Video Source button until you see the DVD playing.

Hope that helps!

Some of their very old sets the video input was located on channels in the 90's; Try scrolling down from 99 to 90 to see if you locate the video input; this is just the way they did things in the older sets.

Before you rate this solution let me know what you find first.

SD TECH

Greetings - You need to have you DVD player hooked up to the video inputs - See below. Don't mind the mouse scratch out lines. The Device on the right represents your DVD player.




You then have to choose video as your source on the TV (not channel 3 or 4) using your remote - see below.


You should be good to go.

Enjoy your movies,

Mikeywaf

It depends on which input you have the DVD plugged into. The pictures below show the different inputs. One of those should match what you see on the back of your DVD. If you don't know which, you can turn on your DVD player and hit the INPUTS button shown on the picture of the remote control shown below. Or, if it's connected to one of the inputs pointed to by the DIRECT SELECT arrow on the picture of the remote control, you can go there directly from watching the TV.

DVD players don't carry signals to channels. They carry signals to inputs. Check the back of your TV. If your cable coming from the DVD player goes into "video 1" set the tv to video 1, etc.

On either the front of the TV or a universal remote (which I assume you have already programmed) hit the MENU button. Go to option 4 "Channel". Go down to "List and Labels." Hit the CH up or down key until you see "FRNT" come up under the channel # heading. If your DVD is connected and playing, you'll see it playing now. Exit the menu to watch. You'll have to reverse the process to get back to watching TV, but there doesn't seem to be any way around this if you don't have your RCA remote. This process is guaranteed to work on an F27442 and will probably work on some other RCA models.