Connecting Your Dual-Deck VCR
Introduction
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To determine the hookup you need:
1.If you don’t have a cable system, use the Basic Connections.
2.If you have a cable system but no converter box, use the Basic Cable Connections.
3.If you have a cable system with a converter box (some or all channels are scrambled or premium), use Cable Converter Box Hookup (or Alternative Cable Converter Box Hookup).
ANTENNA
TV
Signal
VCR
Your exact hookup will depend on whether or not you subscribe to cable, and whether you have a cable converter box or other equipment. However, the basic idea is the same.
The signal (whether antenna, cable, or satellite) coming into your house needs two things for the program to appear on your TV: cables and tuners.
First, the signal travels through a cable.
Second, the signal goes to a device with a tuner such as your TV or VCR. The tuner selects the one channel that you are watching from the many channels that you have available.
After you have chosen the desired channel with this tuner, the device may convert the signal into the audio and video that you see on your television screen, or it may rebroadcast the signal, on a
For example, a cable may go into a device with a tuner (a cable box or VCR) and have a cable going from this device into another tuner such as your TV. This means that the channel selected on the first tuner (Cable box or VCR) is the one that the second tuner (TV) will pick up. This is why you select your TV channels using your VCR remote control. The signal is coming to the VCR which tunes in the channel you select and sends that channel to the TV. This is also why, if you have a cable converter box, you select TV channels using the cable converter box.
When one tuner sends a signal for a channel to the next tuner, the first tuner always uses a particular channel of its own to broadcast on. For example, your VCR uses either channel 3 or 4. If your VCR is set to broadcast on channel 3, you must set your TV to channel 3 to receive this signal.
So, to watch TV channel 12, you would tune in channel 12 on your VCR and channel 3 or your TV. Your con- verter box, if you have one, works the same way.
CHAPTER 4 - CONNECTING YOUR