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| Thread ID: 88843 | 2008-04-11 00:02:00 | DVD Recorder & Cable TV | pepper2 (8629) | PC World Chat |
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| 657922 | 2008-04-11 00:02:00 | I have had a VHS video recorder connected between my Cable input and the TV. The video recorder has failed and we have purchased a Panasonic composit DVD recorder and VHS Video Tape recorder model DMR-ES35V. The TV is a Panasonic TX-68P23Z The cable set top box has an output of two RCF cables one red and one black and were connected to two input sockets on the back of the VHS recorder. The output from the recorder was also two similar cables which connected to the AV1 input to the TV. When we selected AV1 on the TV handset we were connected to the cable TV box. When we started the video recorder it took over the output to the screen Just what we wanted. Now with this new device we have connected the DVD common Out sockets to the same TV AV1 Input sockets and the unit will play videos (I cannot test the DVD yet because I have no recorded DVDs). OK so far. Now I have to make the connection with the cable top box to the unit. I have connected the red coloured plug to the Right audio socket and the black one to the video socket. (This appears in conformity with the previous VHS Video connection). There is no input from the set top box to the TV when AV1 is selected and the video is not playing. Any ideas gratefully received. Thank you |
pepper2 (8629) | ||
| 657923 | 2008-04-11 00:16:00 | Sounds like you need to set the DVD recorder to the AV input that the cable TV box is connected to. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 657924 | 2008-04-11 01:15:00 | Woah, that's a little confusing. All I can say is that nowadays with standard RCA plugs, the red one is for the right audio channel, the white is for the left, and the yellow is for video, however, with some older devices, the color coding is different, namely the black plug is sometimes the left audio channel. And also sometimes the video plug is a BNC connector. How old is the cable box, and what model is it? And are you sure you pluged in the cable box to the input of the dvd/vcr player. Try pluging it directly into the tv, see what that does. | ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 657925 | 2008-04-11 01:24:00 | Pepper2 - a picture is worth at least 1,000 words! Can you post a photo or sketch? Some older TVs have a single RCA for sound and a single RCA for video. Often black & red respectively. Unless parallel left and right you can only get either channel not both. If you haven't got Yellow RCA socket try the red socket for video. |
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