scart sockets

almillar

Is your VCR connected via SCART? If it's through the aerial socket (SCART is better) the new layout of the digital broadcasts could be interfering with it, just like when Channel 5 started broadcasting. Set your VCR to 'broadcast' on a different frequency. The fact that you're getting a grey picture could indicate that it's nearly right.
Anyway, not sure what you're planning to record with an analogue tuner in your VCR when the analogue signal is switched off. PVR (Personal Video Recorder)s are far easier to use.

jtonthebike

40+" tv would suggest it's a flat screen.

ditching scart altogether is a better option ... but that's another topic for another day.

you may well have 'component' video (RedGreenBlue) so 3x connectors on the back of your dvd player - use this to connect to your tv (which should also have component RGB) (you will of course, require a component video cable)

sky + box - ring sky and get it upgraded to a sky hd box and connect via hdmi, the picture improvement from scart to hdmi should be quite a dramatic improvement.

vcr - no idea i disposed of mine 10+ years ago .... i have no idea why anyone wants them any more? sorry

JT

keith.jorda

I have just bought a DVD recorder (samsung). It has not got scart, but has HDMI output.(I understand scart is old fashioned now). This box can record from TV onto the 500mb memory, but as I have cable tv I don't want it for this function. I want to download from my virgin box to my DVD recorder hard drive. On the instructions it states:Recording
HDD (500GB) Media Recording
USB Storage (file copy only). So if I can get onto the dvd hard drive, then I assume I can transfer to USB.

If the back of the DVD player had a scart then I would have tried to transfer that way, but as no scart on the DVD recorder then not sure which leads I need.

Virgin are replacing my box for a tivo box next week, but in the meantime I am hoping to find out how to do this, so I can save all the unwatched recordings that are on the V+ box.
Keith

davemurgatroyd

keith.jorda wrote: »

I have just bought a DVD recorder (samsung). It has not got scart, but has HDMI output.(I understand scart is old fashioned now). This box can record from TV onto the 500mb memory, but as I have cable tv I don't want it for this function. I want to download from my virgin box to my DVD recorder hard drive. On the instructions it states:Recording
HDD (500GB) Media Recording
USB Storage (file copy only). So if I can get onto the dvd hard drive, then I assume I can transfer to USB.

If the back of the DVD player had a scart then I would have tried to transfer that way, but as no scart on the DVD recorder then not sure which leads I need.

Virgin are replacing my box for a tivo box next week, but in the meantime I am hoping to find out how to do this, so I can save all the unwatched recordings that are on the V+ box.
Keith

What model is the DVD recorder?

split_second

i thought connections of various sorts were the norm, our tv is a 32 inch lg (2 years old) we have 2 scarts, hdmi, the one with the 3 plugs with the name that escapes me and probably other things too, plus adapters and leads are so cheap now as long as you have a spare socket of some type anything can be connected as long as it is new enough to run off scart or newer