How do I connect my DVD to my Sky Glass TV?

[1Brockbank]

I need to know how to connect my DVD player to my Sky Glass TV.

[MarkGoldsmith]

The Sky Glass will have HDMI sockets you can use to connect the DVD player to the Tv using an HDMI cable (providing your dvd player supports HDMI)

[TimmyBGood]

@1Brockbank 

Glass can struggle with older optical disk players, and some DVD hardware is now very old.  HDMI #3 has a compatibility option in Settings to try and help, but you may need to consider a modern Blu-ray player instead.

Note that if your player has a SCART connection or is integrated with speakers as a 'home cinema' system of twenty years ago then it's really time to pension it off.

[Donky]

How do I get sound though from my dvd player on my sky glass it work tho HDMI just have no sound that comes through 

[TimmyBGood]

@Donky 

You could try it on HDMI #3 with the compatibility mode, but Glass just doesn't like older DVD players, which to be fair are now very dated technology.  Blu-ray players are more likely to be successful.

[Kev110]

This is clear a copy right protection on the skyglass TVs . I use a bose system, and when we. first had the TV .I connected it up to the skyglass TV on the HDMI .it worked brilliantly.  I could play any DVD .now I can only get the DVD players menu up on the screen. And play copies of DVDs .but not the genuine DVDs . now I've read that old players won't work .well it's nothing do with the old DVD player. Sky have put out up dates for these TVs .and installed software to stop us playing our old DVDs. I play a Mike Oldfield live DVD .which I used when I set it up.  It played perfectly. Now won't play at all .I get no picture . But can play a copied DVD ,no problem. We have brought our TV. Now it's no good to us .what a rip off . You can't play you old favourite DVDs anymore. It's another scam .get us buy new players .it seems 

[Jporch316]

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@Kev110 wrote:

This is clear a copy right protection on the skyglass TVs . I use a bose system, and when we. first had the TV .I connected it up to the skyglass TV on the HDMI .it worked brilliantly.  I could play any DVD .now I can only get the DVD players menu up on the screen. And play copies of DVDs .but not the genuine DVDs . now I've read that old players won't work .well it's nothing do with the old DVD player. Sky have put out up dates for these TVs .and installed software to stop us playing our old DVDs. I play a Mike Oldfield live DVD .which I used when I set it up.  It played perfectly. Now won't play at all .I get no picture . But can play a copied DVD ,no problem. We have brought our TV. Now it's no good to us .what a rip off . You can't play you old favourite DVDs anymore. It's another scam .get us buy new players .it seems 

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Or there could be a scratch or something similar on your Mike oldfield dvd. 

[Kev110]

No mate . Their is no scratch on the DVD. in fact all my DVDs are like new . Not one will play anymore. Only copies play, doesn't  anyone else think this a bit strange. They played before , but not now I've changed nothing.  So as I said this tells me  copy right protection software as Been incorporated in a software up date .to stop us playing our own DVDs .controlling what we want to watch on these TVs .it's like if you want to watch your favourite DVD. Buy it or rent it from us . Why would you if you already have the DVD 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Kev110 wrote:

So as I said this tells me  copy right protection software as Been incorporated in a software up date .to stop us playing our own DVDs  

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I'd think that's extremely unlikely: any such mechanism would have to be in the optical player rather than a monitor connected over HDMI cable.  HDMI does enforce High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) but that's a handshake between the hardware devices and nothing to do with the nature of the source material.

[Kev110]

OK, so why would it stop playing the same DVDs that it played before. And only play a copy .the copy has its copy right protection striped from it .where as the the original DVD has its protection still on it . Nothing has changed. So it's got to be in the TV . It played everything before. But now just copies . So it's in the TV. what have they changed ? It's like the system they put in the Sony PlayStation. 

[TimmyBGood]

@Kev110 

The television set doesn't know whether an optical disk or any other source has its own copy protection: that's not part of the function of the TV.

The only real test would be to try the player on a different television.

[Kev110]

Hi thanks for that . I have tried it on another TV .and me projector. It works fine .and like I said this Bose system worked really well on the Skyglass TV before.  But now will only let me play copies. No genuine DVDs. It's strange as it worked fine before