Does anyone have any experience with this? I have a comcast cable box and a toshiba vcr. I need to record something to VHS tape very soon.
Here’s my issue:
Instead of going through the normal part of the TV, we have HDTV so the cords go through Video 6 in the back of the TV, and hence this is where we watch tv. I looked this up in the comcast menu, and followed the directions, but they were very unclear and it isn’t working. Here’s what I’ve done so far:
Attached Video and Audio Out AV cables from back of cable box to “In” jacks on back of VCR.
This is where it gets confusing. In the manual, it says to then connect the audio out cables from the back of the VCR to the back of my telivision. But my problem is that those cables are not the standard red/white/yellow AV cables. I have 5 much larger cables, in red, white, green, blue, and red again. Hence, I have no idea what to do here.
Does anyone have any advice?
What you have there is right and left audio (the red and white cables) and component video (red, green and blue) Unless you have a super-hopped-up VCR, you won’t have the composite video outputs on it; I’ve never actually seen one that did and it’s quite probable that none do but I’m not prepared to say that none do. They are common on DVD players. Your input connections are correct, and when you record, you need to set the VCR to record from the A/V inputs. How you do that depends on the VCR, but in general there will be a button on the remote labeled “Input”, “Antenna/Video”, “Source” or something like that; you press it repeatedly until the display shows the correct input source. To play it back, you need to either connect the RF Out to the TV’s antenna or cable IN connection or use the baseband A/V (the yellow, red and white) outputs to the matching inputs on the TV.