Re: Pulling My Hair Out

When you are in the position to choose the record channel, have you tried
the up and down arrows on the remote. On one I used to have when you went to
record from, say channel 1, if you used the up arrow it went to 2, but if
you pressed the down arrow it went to AV1 then to AV2.

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John the West Ham fan
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"muzz" <none> wrote in message
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> muzz wrote:
>> My parents got a new TV and a VCR DVD combo recently. My
>> brother wired it up initially but could not get it
>> working. Now I have had no problems in the past
>> connecting AV equipment I used to run three sat receivers
>> and a VCR without any additional scart connection boxes.
>> So I was happy to go and sort it out for them.
>> Hitachi TV and Hitachi VCR/DVD combo box. They also have
>> a freeview box. I pulled out all the cables and started
>> from scratch. The freeview has only one scart, the VCR/DVD has two,
>> labelled (AV1 TV) and (AV2 Decoder) I connected one scart
>> from the AV1 to the telly and the scart from AV2 to the
>> freeview box. Switched on everything set telly to AV, EXT1 and got the
>> picture from the freeview box.
>> Put a tape into the VCR/DVD pressed play and got the tape
>> playing on the telly, likewise with a DVD.
>> Now comes the tricky bit.
>> Tried to tape from the freeview box, blue screen !
>> Ah no prob I thought. Looked for the button to switch AV
>> inputs on the VCR ( like TV/VCR or AV ) but there isn't
>> one. I could find no way of telling the VCR to tape via the
>> AV2 Decoder input it will only tape from a named channel
>> after I had attached the RF from the freeview to the
>> VCR/DVD of course. So my parents can watch freeview OK
>> but can only tape terrestrial. On manual tuning you do get an option for
>> decoder on/off
>> on each cnannel but this seems to make no difference,
>> there's no AV selection on the channel tuning.
>> Any thoughts ?
>
> Oh crap, wrong group ! Sorry.
>
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> Muzz
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