Hook Up a DVD Player Through a VHS Recorder and TV
It's easy to hook all your video together. This is especially useful if you don't have a "home theatre system" or your TV is an older one with only antenna input.
Steps
- Be sure that your VCR is a newer one with at least one "line in" set of jacks in the back. Some have one in the back and one in front.
- Your DVD Player should have a video/sound cable with 3 connectors on each end. Otherwise get one or 3 single cables.
- Connect DVD Video Out to VHS Video In (yellow).
- Connect DVD Left to VHS Left (white).
- Connect DVD Right to VHS Right (red).
- Turn on your DVD and VHS.
- Your VHS should have a tuner setting for "L1" or "L2". Select whichever shows the DVD's video on the TV.
- Remember to select that input channel whenever you want to watch the DVD.
- When watching a DVD, if you have a blank VHS in the VCR, you may record what you are watching onto the VHS, just as if you were recording from cable.
Warnings
- Be sure that you are connecting the DVD signals to the "inputs" on the VHS, not the "outputs"
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