Is this possible? my DVD Recorder/Player is Panasonic DMR-ES30VEB, TV is LG 32LC2D and headphones Philips SHP2500.

What I was thinking of is plugging the phones into the DVD player and using the TV as a monitor via the HDMI cable.

Unfortunately, I seem to have a problem with my computer and cannot put a link in here to show a pic of my DVD player's connections. I think I would need an amplifier of some sort in between the DVD player and the phones as the DVD player's output would be 3 cables (red, yellow and white) whilst the phone plug is a single jack plug I think you call it?

This is purely to play back DVD discs and not watching actual TV programmes this way (for that I use the trusty PVR.....)

Thanks in advance.

First check the 'phones instructions as to whterh it's advisable and the DVD Recorder to see which SCART you need

The beastie you need to output the SCART to 3.5mm phono jack is this available from Maplin: there's a few stores inLondon http://www.maplin.co.uk/scart-to-3.5...t-switch-43876

Add this coupler

The yellow output is composite video - so carries no audio. You can ignore this.

The red and white outputs are analogue stereo audio - but need to be sent to an ampliier, as you surmised. So, you need to find an amp that supports stereo input and has headphone outputs - any old hifi version should do the job, you don't need a newer AV amp for that. If you wanted digital audio out (DD/DTS) you would need an AV amp which offered optical or digital coaxial input, but if you only intend to use the analogue stereo RCA outs, an older amp should be fine.

Or use any old radio which has an AUX IN and a headphone out.

You cannot plug headphones into a Line Out and expect them to work properly.

Line Outs on things like DVD players are intended to be fed into high impedance Line Ins on an amplifier not a pair of low impedance headphones. This will affect the signal level you can get out of the player.

Also the output level is more than likely fixed. So no way to adjust the volume of the headphones even if they did work.

To do the job properly you need an amplifier designed to drive headphones such as this...

http://cpc.farnell.com/unbranded/bt9...20This%20Range

Or as suggested above any stereo HiFi amp or similar with a stereo line in spare and a headphone jack.

Cordless headphones will work, the amplifier is in the headset. The transmitter connects to the line level outputs.

Sorry for the duf info I posted. I sit corrected. This thread has more on amps.

I use 2 RCA to 3.5 mm stereo jack from my DVD recorders RCA AV out to my wireless headphones' transmitter but rarely need to as my TV's speakers are fine. I use the same transmitter if I fancy listening to one of my Pure DAB/FM sets whilst in the garden.

Wireless headphones are fine. They are designed to work with either a standard headphone jack or Line Outs on the device they are connected to. The input on them is high impedance so matches a line out much better than a pair of corded headphones.

Plus of course the volume control is built into the headset so doesn't matter that the line out the base unit is connected to is fixed level.

i believe that scart adapter is the wrong way around.

It's switched so can be used to input signals to the SCART or take signals out of the SCART.

you're not wrong. i didn't see that bit.

This is far the best way I have found. No headphone wires either.

Audio output, rca or scart, is usually "line level". Headphones require an output amplifier to "drive" the speaker units (voltage into current).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_level

That's provided by headphone jack socket, usually.

EIther extra headphone amplifier plugged into DVD outputs , or wireless headphones might be more convenient!

...... you COULD also use computer mike or line input jack, and listern "live" with appropriate software running ........ (not too good - & ties up computer - above solutions as above are better!).