Is it me? or Cox? or the weather?

Having determined to hole up in my relatively warm home here while the rain nourishes our desert flora, I thought today would be a good time to hook up my new DVD player. Probably, I'm right - it is a good time to do it when nothing else is calling me to some activity I might in fact enjoy. After many, many minutes, actually, hours, of trying everything that I could understand from my not so vast knowledge and the various instruction guides and manuals, I'm now waiting to see if a recharge, or whatever it's called, from Cox will return me to my formerly happy life of cable television, while, hopefully, also allowing me to view DVD's on my screen. I live in hope, but not much.