Posted by Tricky Dicky on 06/07/06 08:05

"Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Andy Upton wrote:
>> I have a system consisting of a 42" Philips plasma TV - Philips
>> 42PF5520D/10 ( with aeriel extension lead ), an NTL box and a Philips
>> VCR - VR550/07. My problem is this :
>> When I tape channels 1, 2, 3,or 4 they are okay, but when I try to
>> tape a Sky ( NTL ) channel, I get loads of faint but visible
>> horizontal lines all over the screen.
>> I have tried all sorts of things including twiddling about with the
>> RF OUT all to no avail.
>> Does anyone know what's going on and how to get rid of the lines ?
>>
>
> My mother has the same problem since getting her new (cheap) vcr. Normally
> she has everthing tuned to channel 1 on the telly, but when she records,
> the image is distorted on channel 1 as you describe. If she sets it to
> EXT1 (scart), it shows fine. It does record ok (ie. playback is not
> distorted), but having to explain to her (every time she is recording
> anything) is a pain. As above, this happens when viewing/recording
> 'analogue' cable. She doesn't have satellite, nor does she view via
> "terrestrial" channels.
> ...I've tried getting her to watch EXT1 as normal, but once the vcr is
> switched off -for whatever reason- she's back on the phone wondering why
> she can't get any reception on the telly.
>
> It never happened on the old vcr. I don't have an explanation, but you are
> not alone. Hopefully someone here will make sense of it.
>
> (I can't recall which vcr it is).
>
> -Kevin.

Could be that the VCR and decoder are sharing the same channel and
interfering with each other. Although the setting to change has been
available in most VCRs for years, it is only recently with the proliferation
of boxes in peoples living rooms that it has been necessary to change it

I am off out now but the channel number 63 springs to mind - try changing
this in the VCR set-up

Tricky

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