If someone is an expert out there, would they confirm this? So, in 'VCR' mode on the VCR you can record from 2-99 and as long as the VCR-to-TV input is a line input, still watch digital channels (or I suppose analog too) through the cable box. I put the RF input from the cable into the VCR first, and then the VCR to the cable box and then the cable box to the TV. But this morning, I played with it further and I think that you can record analog 2-99 on the VCR (and watch something else through the cable box) without using a splitter. I have a similar problem/reaction as Karen.
Posted on Monday, Decem16:02 GMTHi - unfortunately I only saw this thread after I posted my message this morning. Any suggestions welcome, and I am capable of building or devising hookups and circuitry that would route the signal as needed.
#IF I WATCH A DVD WILL THE VCR RECORD IT TV#
Is there any way to maintain the digital cable box's bidirectional capability but still have a VCR upstream of the cable box? I realize you could have a split before the box into the first VCR, but we don't want to have to have a separate TV to monitor it through. But at my sister's house, they want to be able to do as before. If you hook things up with no interruption before the cable box, everything restores back. What's happening is, you can still connect a VCR before the cable box and receive/record channels that are still run analog/unencoded, BUT this prohibits the digital cable box from communicating with the cable company (network), and within a few minutes, any digital channel you may have been watching downstream of the cable box turns into a "not authorized" black screen. Now with the digital cable box, the box is like a live network device (I'm supposing) that communicates back to the cable company, requiring bi-directional capabilities on the cable line. With my sister, we used to have one VCR before the cable box and one after, so that they could watch (and record) a cable-box-decoded-only channel while recording channels before the cable box that weren't or didn't need to be decoded.
#IF I WATCH A DVD WILL THE VCR RECORD IT SERIES#
In my case, without a cable box, I could do it by just connecting them in series in front of the TV (and probably as many as signal strength would allow). Our habit in the past had been (due to both of us being TV addicts) to hang two VCRs off the analog cable line. My sister in Chicago used to have analog, now Comcast is forcing a change to all digital cable boxes, with the usual partial analog feed. Posted on Monday, Octo21:50 GMTPerhaps Cable Boy or David Massey can take a shot at this question.
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