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Posted by Larry LaMere on 01/15/06 16:43
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:13:41 -0600, "Cathy" <ccdeviney@NOSPAM.cox.net> wrote:
>You have red, white and yellow (video) going from OUT on the back of the VCR
>to IN on the DVD recorder, and another set of red, white and yellow (video)
>going OUT from the DVD recorder to the IN on the TV?
Yup
>When you play a DVD from the DVD recorder, can you see it OK on the TV?
Yup
>If you are trying to play a copyrighted tape you may be having a problem
>with macrovision, although you should be able to play tapes recorded from
>the TV.
All the tapes except the first one are movies taped off the Turner Classic Movies channel.
The only thing I havent tried is just watching TV using the DVD built in tuner. I dont have an
antenna ant the nearest cable hookup is at the other end of the house.
>"Larry LaMere" <ljlamere@acd.net> wrote in message
>news:bo5js1dakttrrv7mef6hoi31vneoq9sak0@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:54:07 GMT, John <jlwsecure-usenet5@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Larry LaMere <ljlamere@acd.net> wrote in
>>>news:sa5is15tahb2np0keub5tt8nheei0p6c5v@4ax.com:
>>>
>>>> I know it's a cheapie but even so it should work.
>>>>
>>>> When I try to record from a tape, a black box keeps popping up
>>>> covering the picture. At first I thought it was copy protection. ( The
>>>> first tape I tried was The Invisible Ray starring Karlof and Lugosi).
>>>> But it does it no matter what tape I'm recording or even just
>>>> watching. Even the ones taped off the TV.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a known issue with this machine? Is there a setting I might
>>>> have got wrong in setup?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any replies.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Do you have the right input selected? When in the "source" selection
>>>mode, csn you view the tape? You need to do an source selection every
>>>time you use the recorder. I've never tried to record off tape yet, so I
>>>don't know.
>>>
>>>I do know that you *cannot* simply connect the coaxial RF connector
>>>between your VCR and the DVD recorder. You'd need an RF modulator
>>>between the VCR and the DVD recorder.
>>
>>
>> Hi John, Thanks. I've got the 3 wire composite wires going from the vcr to
>> the dvd and from the dvd
>> to the tv. I also have the co-axial wires connected. When I select video-1
>> and watch on the tv's aux
>> channel I get the black box.
>>
>> But when I select tuner (the co-ax) and watch on channel 3 ( supposedly
>> this signal is just supposed
>> to feed straight through to the tv ) I still get the black boxes.
>>
>> The ILO DVD is doing something to the signal no matter what input or
>> output I use, even the one
>> that's not supposed to do anything. Yes I also tried tuner as input and
>> watching on the aux channel.
>>
>> I've e-mailed to ILO support, I'll see if they have anything to say.
>>
>> Just on the chance that it might have been a bad unit, I've already taken
>> the first one back and the
>> new one is the same.
>>
>> By the way, both are DVDR05MU.
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>>
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