Expert: Wayne Tapia - 11/10/2009

Question
Hello,

I recently bought an old Sony CDP-CE405 5 disc CD player on Craigslist. It works great except there's no volume control. In the back there are just two (red and white) line out plug ins.

I also just bought a Vizio 26" LCD tv (VA26L), but my CD player won't work if I plug it directly into the tv (according to Vizio, this is because it doesn't use a yellow video cable).


I was hoping to plug the CD player into my Motorola DCT 2244/1161/ABCDEF cable box and then have another cable go from the cable box to a pair of Sony speakers. But I cannot get this to work. Is this even possible?

Basically, I want to avoid having to buy a stereo receiver and would like to have the audio play through my tv or cable box so that I can control the volume. Any suggestions for how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for any help!

Answer
I doubt that your cable box has audio inputs - every one I've ever seen or dealt with have been output only.

If you're television won't allow you to use any of the audio inputs without a corresponding video feed, you are probably out of luck. Some TV's won't even go to a particular input if there isn't a video source connected to it.