please help me before I top myself!!!

Twinny99

Im sorry if this is in the wrong place but I am at my wits end. Can someone helo me set up my equipment. I have a phillips tv, a panasonic ex25 recordable dvd player, a sky + box and a video recorder.

TV - a hole with AERIAL over it and 2 scart holes one with (external 1) and the other with (external 2 - VHS audio) written on them.

DVD recorder - 2 holes one with RF out and one with RF in written on them and 2 scart holes. one with AV1 (TV) and the other with av2 EXT on it.

SKY + box - one hole with RF out on it and 2 scart holes one with VCR scart and the other with TV scart. There are lots of other things but they are all screwed in with nuts and bolts?????!!!

Video recorder - Antenna hole IN and antenna hole OUT. 2 scart holes one with Euro AVdecoder on it and the other with euro av video on it.


I have 3 scart leads and lots of other leads that I dont really know what to do with and am desperate to get this thing upand running before the whole lot goes out the window.

I would like to be able to record things from my sky + box onto dvd discs and also to copy old videos onto disc.

COuld someone please tell me what goes where etc?? Thank you so much

A very stupid woman

jem16

Using scart cables connect like this.

Sky+ TV out to DVDR AV2
DVDR AV1 to TV AV1
Sky+ VCR OUT to VCR

RF Leads

Aerial connection(assuming you have one) to DVDR RF In
DVDR RF OUT to VCR RF IN
VCR RF OUT to TV

Twinny99

OK am off to try - thanks!!!:j :j

cuffie

Bless you Jem16 helping us women in distress!!! Jem has been trying to sort my DVD probs out all day....you are a star.

cuffie

Twinny99 wrote:

A very stupid woman

Not as stupid as me, I can assure you! x:D

jem16

cuffie wrote:

Bless you Jem16 helping us women in distress!!! Jem has been trying to sort my DVD probs out all day....you are a star.

Well we women have to stick together!

Will check back later but have to go out now.

Twinny99

cuffie wrote:

Bless you Jem16 helping us women in distress!!! Jem has been trying to sort my DVD probs out all day....you are a star.

Yahoo for Jem.... I was ready to chuck the whole lot out of the window. I have connected it all up now and need to see what I can record etc....

Heres to Jem16 :T :T :T :T :T :T :T

cuffie

I feel ashamed for thinking you were a fella knowing all this stuff!!:D I am still very close to the vodka bottle Twinny, but at least Jem got me watching my tv in colour!! x

jem16

cuffie wrote:

I feel ashamed for thinking you were a fella knowing all this stuff!!:D I am still very close to the vodka bottle Twinny, but at least Jem got me watching my tv in colour!! x

Don't worry about it - a lot have made the same assumption.

Have you managed to get your aerial problem sorted yet?

Twinny99

cuffie wrote:

I feel ashamed for thinking you were a fella knowing all this stuff!!:D I am still very close to the vodka bottle Twinny, but at least Jem got me watching my tv in colour!! x

I have everything working now :j :j dont know if I can record from vhs to dvd yet, I will try it later on...

Jem is a Gem :j

jem16

Twinny99 wrote:

I have everything working now :j :j dont know if I can record from vhs to dvd yet, I will try it later on...

Jem is a Gem :j

Glad to hear you've got everything working now.

At the moment you won't be able to record from VHS onto DVD as it's not connected in any way. The easiest way would be to temporarily connect a scart cable from the VCR to AV2 on the DVDR(you would need to disconnect the scart from the Sky+ box to do this)

You may not be able to do it at all if the tapes are bought tapes as the macrovision copyright will not allow it. If it's your own recordings it should be possible.