My mom wanted her dvd hooked up so I tried to channel down to input ,the tv went to nothing but snow Tried to rest by unplugging it for 15 minutes but it did nothing

Hello,

first, do you know how to successfully hook up a DVD to a TV? It might be that you did not connect the DVD to TV correctly or the Video cable might be defective or failing.

Please crosscheck the below procedure on how to hook up a DVD player to a TV:

• Check all the input ports located in back of the TV. It needs to have at least composite ports, which are the three round sockets colored yellow, white and red. It could also have an HDMI port (it looks like a small, stretched trapezoid) or component ports (similar to composite, but colored blue, green and red).
• Disconnect the cable/satellite receiver from the TV only if it is using the TV input port you want to use for the DVD. If this box is connected through an RF coaxial cable (the thick black cable that is twisted into place), you don't need to disconnect it.
• Connect the DVD player to the TV, using the best cable connection available. An HDMI cable will transmit the bast video/audio combination. If you can't use this, the composite cables (yellow, white, red) will also carry both video and audio. Component cables (blue, green, red) may give you the best video quality but won't transmit audio.
• Connect a cable to the DVD and TV for audio if you connected the video with component cables. The simplest connection will be through composite audio cables. This means you only need a cable that has red and white plugs.
• Attach your cable or satellite receiver to the DVD's input, if it has one. You should only need to do this if you are using a DVD recorder instead of just a player. If the DVD recorder has an RF coaxial port, use that. Otherwise, link the cable/satellite's output to the DVD's input through composite cables.
• Reconnect your cable/satellite receiver to the TV if you had to disconnect it (Step 2) and did not connect it to the DVD's input (Step 5). Using the RF coaxial connection is your best option.