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Hookups Without a Cable Box / Direct Broadcast System 7 The easiest connection – just a TV, VCR, and antenna or cable – is shown below. If you have a Cable Box or a Direct Broadcast System, please see pages eight-nine. If you have a Stereo TV, please see page 10. After you hook up the VCR, go to page 11 to turn on the VCR. 1 Antenna Indoor/Outdoor (300 ohm) Disconnect the antenna or cable from your TV.
8 Hookups With a Cable Box/Direct Broadcast System There are two ways to connect your Cable Box/DBS to the VCR. With this connection: ● You may view any channel. ● You must select channels at the Cable Box/DBS. Channels cannot be changed at the VCR. ● You may not view a channel other than the one you are recording. ● You may not program channels at the VCR. ● You can only program a timer recording for one channel at a time.
Hookups With a Cable Box/Direct Broadcast System (cont’d) 9 With this connection: ● You may watch one channel while recording another. ● You may not record scrambled channels. 1 VCR 2 ANT Cable Box/DBS 75V ANT CAB / LE IN AUDIO IN OUT IN VIDEO OUT OUT CH3 CH4 RF coaxial cable Cable Signal RF coaxial cable 3 TV’s ANTENNA IN Jack Connections 1 2 Connect a Cable signal to the VCR’s ANT(enna) IN Jack.
10 Hookups With a Stereo TV 1 ANT antenna or cable to ANT(enna) IN Jack IN AUDIO OUT IN VIDEO VIDEO (yellow) and AUDIO (white) OUT Jacks OUT 2 3 Audio and Video IN Jacks on TV CH3 CH4 Video Cable Audio Cable ● Audio and Video cables are not supplied. 1 Connect the antenna or cable to the ANT(enna) IN Jack on the back of the VCR. 2 Connect a video cable to the yellow VIDEO OUT Jack on the back of the VCR. Then, connect the other end of the video cable to the VIDEO IN Jack on your TV.
Front Panel 21 PAUSE Button While recording, press to temporarily stop the recording. Press a second time to resume normal recording. Details are on page 24. You can not pause a One-Touch Recording. Details are on page 25. During tape playback, press to pause the picture. Each press of the PAUSE button will cause the noise lines to move on the screen. Press the PLAY button to resume normal playback. Details are on page 34.
22 Back Panel ANT(enna) IN Jack Connect your antenna or cable here. Details are on pages seven-10. AUDIO IN Jack Connect an audio cable coming from the audio out jack of a camcorder, another VCR, or an audio source here. Details are on page 32. AUDIO OUT Jack Connect an audio cable going to the audio in jack of a TV, camcorder, another VCR, or an audio system here. Details are on pages 10 and 32.
32 Rerecording (Copying Tapes) 1. Audio cable from AUDIO OUT Jack of VCR 1 to AUDIO IN Jack of VCR 2 VCR 1 Playing VCR VCR 2 - Recording VCR ANT ANT IN IN AUDIO OUT IN VIDEO 1 AUDIO OUT OUT IN CH3 CH4 VIDEO 2. Video cable from VIDEO OUT Jack of VCR 1 to VIDEO IN Jack of VCR 2 OUT CH3 CH4 3. RF coaxial cable from the OUT jack of VCR2 to the TV’s ANTENNA IN Jack VCR 1 will play your tape. Insert a prerecorded tape in VCR 1. If the tape does not have a record tab, playback begins.
