oh well you have every type of connection on there you could get and you only need ONE! IF you have an HDMI cable that goes from your TV to the DVR player that is it that is all you need disconnect all those other cables! the HDMI is video and audio all in one cable that is the advanatage of HDMI one cable and the highest quality. The other options are only to be used if you are using devices that do not use HDMI. So plug the HDMI cable to either the DVR or the DVD depending on which one you want to use, then use the the red and white RCA jacks on the tv (it does not matter if there is a yellow one beside it that yellow is for video not audio so you will use the red and white only) plug your headphones red and white male cords in to those red and white female out jacks on the tv. That is all! leave all other cords out of the equation. As long as all of your devices that you want to connect to the tv have HDMI use that. IF your tv did not have HDMI then you would use the 3 colored ones yellow white and red that carries video on yellow and right and left audio on the red and white. Ok try that just the HDMI cable and your head phones. BE sure that the source input on the tv is set to HDMI if that is what you will be plugging the DVR or DVD into, if the source input is not selected on the tv you will not be getting the signal. This statement right here is very baffling -a 3-prong (yellow, red & white) from the TV (video out) to the three middle (audio out) jacks on the DVR. you state you are going from tv out to DVR out you can not go from out to out there has to be an IN for anything to work. But you do not need those cables so remove them completely from the equation. HDMI out from DVR to HDMI cable IN on the tv period. Headphones base unit red and white male plugs into the TV red and white female audio out jacks. Period

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Tivo is worth the nominal subscription IMHO. We have DirecTV with Tivo and I believe the extra charge is about $5 per month. WELL worth it -- especially if programming VCRs is difficult for you (it is darn annoying to us and we don;t do it anymore since getting the Tivo). OF course, once we found how great they were, we got a 2nd one for the back of the house. Tivo is the easiest thing in the world to use, though I must say that the company has done a POOR job in the advertising department - they have never been able to adequately communicate what it really is and does. Do you have an on screen program guide with your current cable system? If so, then imagine being able to go to the guide, see a program listed that you like and hit "select." That is all there is to recording with Tivo. Under select, you can even tell it to record just this once, or every day or week when the program is on. There is another button (big and you cannot miss it) that you push when you want to veiw the menu of programs you have recorded. You scroll up and down and then hit select to play what you want. There is no comparison between the concept of Tivo and a VCR. Very different animals. L

There are a lot of movies that I watch more than once, and my collection of DVDs mostly contains fairly old movies or foreign ones. I don't particularly like to stream movies, even though we have fiber optic cable in L.A. I'm more likely to stream in Cathedral City, where we have cable, but it's not as fast as the service we have in L.A. One of the reasons I have not bought CDs recently is that there is very little new music that I like. Also, I've been buying single songs lately, but if I wanted an entire album, I would buy the CDs, as I did for Caro Emerald. I was checking on new music that I've listened to lately and decided to buy Acts of Rebellion by Ela Minus. It turns out to be cheaper to buy the CD than the MP3 album, and I would prefer to have the physical disc. I listen to most music as MP3s that I put on thumb drives, and then I can put the thumb drives into various players that I have, including DVD and Bluray players, as well as the sound system that we have for our TV in L.A. But I also have a boombox in the sewing room that plays CDs, and it does a better job with those than it does with the thumb drives.