My daughter is using an old dresser. The sections that the drawers slide into are completely enclosed so she removed one drawer to house the DVD player and stores her DVDs in the remaining drawers. She drilled a hole in the back of the drawer section to run the wires to the DVD player. Annie

If you have an HDTV--esepecially if it is a large one (>40" or so), then you should be getting a Progressive Scan DVD player, and these are more expensive than your garden variety of DVD player. If you do not now have, nor plan in the near future to get a big screen HDTV, then it does not matter. Progressive scans give you higher quality and resolution (I'll leave it to the technical experts on this site to explain why). When we bought our two--about 4 years ago--I think they were $650+ each. I am sure that prices are way down now. If you are just beginning your migration from the VHS to the DVD world and do not watch a ton of movies nor have a large HDTV, then I agree on getting a basic one. As an aside, most of our equipment is Sony, but our DVD players are Mitsubishi and Toshiba (recommended at the time by a friend in the business). Our movie collection is now over 400 DVD's - with about half being B&W remastered classics. Lynne

They should be. Chances are both the DVD player and the Video Player use both use a Yellow RCA connector for the video signal along with Red & White RCA connectors for Stereo audio. It should be as simple as disconnecting the cables from the back of the video player and plugging them into the back of the DVD player. That being said, you really want to check if the TV has an S-Video connector. This cable would replace the Yellow RCA cable from the DVD player, and would be a significant improvement in picture quality.

Well my daughter was off on Monday and we tried again to hook it all up and still nothing. We got it all hooked up so you can view either the DVD player or the VCR player but can't record from either one. I KNOW there HAS to be a way we can record from one of them. There has to be since BOTH are capable of recording. BUT we just can't figure it out. The VCR is hooked so that it can be viewed through the video 1 on the TV and the DVD is on video 2 for viewing. The TV has 2 in areas on the back of it and the DVD player has only one out area in the back of it. She says we need TWO out areas on the DVD player to record. ????? BUT it's a recordable DVD player so that doesn't make sense. I'm so confused at this point I'm ready to say the heck with it all! :( The back of the TV only has one out and has 2 in hookups. Then the TV has an in hookup on the front of it and the DVD recorder has an in hook up on the front of it as well. The VCR has a hookup on the front of it but it's only yellow and white in colors. The others, the DVD and the TV plug ins have red, yellow AND white plug ins on the front. I used to record from the TV onto the VCR but don't know how to do any of that now since we got the DVD and it's hooked up. Anyway just wanted to tell you guys that and to also thank you for trying to help me get it hooked up!!!