jpd wrote:
gverb1219 wrote:
I guess this is sorta the same as
F-You Friday......
To the cable guy that came over before I got home from work and hooked up the HDTV box to my new (Dales old TV) HDTV...........
You F-ing moron.............
......Everything was hooked up according to the TV's schematics.........everything worked.............you went and changed all my connections and now I cant record anything on the VCR from any cable channels.........it only works for stations that go thru the VCR now................up to 99...........NO FRIGGIN CABLE SHOW CAN BE RECORDED.........THEY DON"T SHOW UP IN THE VCR screen..........F-YOU YOU MORON
Now I gotta go figure out what the heck he did............
Don't touch anything G, I know an excellent work around. All you need is 3 phono plug patch cords to run the cable box output into the L1 (aux) inputs on the VCR. HD is digital, and the VCR tuner I'm sure is analog.
It's an old VCR and only has one input.
Here's what the guy said.
I set everything up according to the TV recommendations. The cable gets split before it goes to the cable box. It goes into the TV and VCR first, then out of the TV into the cable box back to the TV. Everything worked, but by not going into the cable box BEFORE the TV, it would not read the
On Demand signals. For that it HAS to run to the cable box first. To use the VCR you have to switch to the
input 1 mode which goes off from the main screen and uses the feed into the VCR, which only reads whatever channels the VCR is capable of getting.
In other words the cable going into the VCR doesn't go through the converter at all. To get the VCR to show on screen you HAVE to switch to
input 1.
........So, I can only record what I can watch through the VCR..........which is about up to channel 99
Here are the inputs and outputs of the TV and VCR. The first pic is how I first set it up, but because it goes into the TV first...........
no On Demand. The next pic is the VCR hookup. .yes, it's an old VCR.
As you can see, the guy eliminated the "
converter out" jack so the On Demand will work
I need someone who can get this crap to work.........I really dont want to buy more chit if I don't have to.
This post edited by gverb1219 11:12 AM 01/09/2008