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| Grave 632th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):VCR help"
, posted Sat 30 Aug 12:08
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I'm so confused. I bought some sort of audio/video connector,but it wasn't the right kind,I guess. Because I still can't figure out how to record shows straight from my TV.
It's complicated to explain. I'm having a very hard time on this.
I have cable. But only one hookup on the back of my TV,and that's for the cable line. Everytime I wanna watch a movie,I have to disconnect that so I can plug in my VCR. I wanna start recording my favorite shows straight from the TV. See what I'm saying? >_<
I bought this stupid video/audio connector. But it has the same "hookups" (coax cable) on both sides. And I still didn't see how it helped. The instructions didn't help me either. Didn't show a VCR picture to hook it up.
Argh. Help someone. This fuckin sucks.
Do you remember how video game RF switches had a pass-through, so you could hook the system up, and still run cable through the TV?
Most VCRs don't have something like that, but they should have two coax connectors on the back. One for cable in, one for output. What you need is another coax cable, so you can run the cable into the VCR with one, and into the TV with another.
The back of the VCR should be well-labeled... if not, you bought a crappy VCR. Eep.
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| Undead Fred 840th Post
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| "Re(1):VCR help" , posted Sat 30 Aug 14:19
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I'm so confused. I bought some sort of audio/video connector,but it wasn't the right kind,I guess. Because I still can't figure out how to record shows straight from my TV.
It's complicated to explain. I'm having a very hard time on this.
I have cable. But only one hookup on the back of my TV,and that's for the cable line. Everytime I wanna watch a movie,I have to disconnect that so I can plug in my VCR. I wanna start recording my favorite shows straight from the TV. See what I'm saying? >_<
I bought this stupid video/audio connector. But it has the same "hookups" (coax cable) on both sides. And I still didn't see how it helped. The instructions didn't help me either. Didn't show a VCR picture to hook it up.
Argh. Help someone. This fuckin sucks.
Okay, here we go:
1. Get a coax cable going from the coax jack on the back of your VCR labeled "VCR Out" or somthing like that to the coax cable jack on the back of your TV.
2. Take your cable coax cable, game system(s) coaxes, or basic TV antenna connector and plug that into the "ANT In" or whatever on the back of your VCR.
That should do it! Two easy steps. And no, you don't have to have your VCR turned on to play games and whatever else. Got more than one game system? Not a problem either (As long as you have a... what's it called... an adaptor for your system that has the coax connector? Is it a UHF adaptor? Ugh. You know what I'm talking about.) If you have one of those adaptors for each system, you can piggy-back them into the ANT In on the VCR, then connect your antenna or cable source into the very last game system adaptor.
Hope that helps... let me know if that doesn't work.
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| talbaineric 5414th Post
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| "Re(2):VCR help" , posted Sat 30 Aug 16:47
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I'm so confused. I bought some sort of audio/video connector,but it wasn't the right kind,I guess. Because I still can't figure out how to record shows straight from my TV.
It's complicated to explain. I'm having a very hard time on this.
I have cable. But only one hookup on the back of my TV,and that's for the cable line. Everytime I wanna watch a movie,I have to disconnect that so I can plug in my VCR. I wanna start recording my favorite shows straight from the TV. See what I'm saying? >_<
I bought this stupid video/audio connector. But it has the same "hookups" (coax cable) on both sides. And I still didn't see how it helped. The instructions didn't help me either. Didn't show a VCR picture to hook it up.
Argh. Help someone. This fuckin sucks.
well, I was gonna help you with my 4 years experience being an a/v tech, but the other guys beat me to it.
Heck,until I figure this out,I'm gonna need all the help I can get.
I bought a splitter today,so all my hookups are now on one thing,and both TV and VCR work. But I still can't record.
Fred: Yeah,I tried doing that. But I would've had to disconnect the cable if I didn't have my splitter(then I wouldn't be able to record anything with no cable TV). But I did see the Ant In hookup. I guess I gotta buy another coax cable so I can put in in that one.
BTW,my TV kind of sucks. It only has ONE hookup for everything. It's not an old fashioned TV either. Only 4 years old.
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| talbaineric 5419th Post
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| "Re(10):VCR help" , posted Sun 31 Aug 12:51
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This is too confusing. I followed the diagram. Put the coax cable to the TV. But then that takes up my hookup,so where can I put the cable TV?
You don't need to worry about the cable plugging into the TV; the VCR acts as a pass-through for the Cable TV. The cable picture goes from the wall to the VCR and goes straight through to the TV. The VCR basically takes the cable picture and passes it along without doing anything, like an extention cable would.
The TV can only show one thing at once, so you really only need one input for it. It accepts the input from the VCR, which in turn accepts input from the Cable. When the VCR isn't playing a tape, it just passes the Cable picture to the TV since it doesn't have anything else to do.
You may need to set the TV channel to three or four, or set the VCR to channel three or four though. If you have a cable box, you'll probably set the TV and VCR to channel three and use the cable box to change channels. If you don't have a cable box (the coax cable goes straight from the wall to the VCR), then you'll put the TV on channel three and use the VCR to change channels.
OK,I connected the two in the back. And I'm using channel 4 to surf channels(I got the wall cable). But I'm stil confused. It says I'm recording the show. (says REC on the screen). But I can't access the channel on which to play movies. How do I set that?
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