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I have a Philips magnavox TV and I want to hook up both my wii and DVD player at the same time (so i can stop pulling the TV out!), But How exactly can I do so? In the back of the TV there are 5 holes to plug cords into, one yellow, two white and two red. Both my DVD and Wii have the basic red, white, and yellow cords. Is there a way to hook them both up to the back of the TV? Also my DVD has three holes: blue, green and red. Will I have to go buy a cord to hook my wii up through that? and if that is the case then where do I go to play either of them, or will I just turn one on at a time and it will stay in the same place as I play them now? No, The wii doesn’t play DVD’s, I personally think that it is stupid set up.. and of course i will have to pay more money to fix this issue.

Answer:
Your TV has 5 connection ports. There is probably a yellow/white/red “A/V In” and red/white “audio out”. So you only have one in-connection option. This means you will need to buy an RCA switcher. You’ll run two sets of cables in and one set out to the TV. There will be some sort of A/B switching mechanism so you can change between the Wii and the DVD player. I bought one for my mother recently at Radio Shack. It was under $20 I think. It looks something like this: http://store.cablesplususa.com/28746.html P.S. Doesn’t the Wii play DVDs?