Posted by Cathy on 01/15/06 02:13

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?

When you play a DVD from the DVD recorder, can you see it OK on the TV?

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.

"Larry LaMere" <ljlamere@acd.net> wrote in message
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> 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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