Connecting Your 8mm/VHS Dual-Deck VCR
Tip:
If you’re not sure whether to set the back of your VCR to channel 3 or 4, try channel 3 first. Set both the back of your VCR and your TV to channel 3. If your picture has interference, try setting both to channel 4.
Ideally, you should set the channel on the back of your VCR and on the TV to a channel which is NOT broadcast in your area.
Your exact hookup will depend on whether or not you subscribe to cable, and whether you have a cable converter box or other equipment (such as a laser disc player, satellite, etc). However, the basic idea is the same no matter what kind of hookup you need.
The key is this: the signal (whether antenna, cable, or satellite) coming into your house needs two things for the program to appear on your TV. These two things are cables and tuners.
First, the signal travels through cables. In fact, all of the dozens of channels that you can watch on your TV can travel through the same cable, as one signal.
Second, the signal goes to a device with a tuner. From this signal, the tuner selects the one channel that you are watching, from the many different channels that you can watch.
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 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. This means that the channel selected in the first tuner is the only one that the second tuner will be able to pick up. This is why you select TV channels using your VCR remote control. The VCR is tuning in the one channel that you are watching, and sending 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, whichever you set on the back of the VCR. If your VCR is set to broadcast on channel 3, you must set your TV to channel 3 to receive that signal. So, to watch TV channel 12, you would tune in channel 12 on your VCR, and channel 3 (or 4) on your TV.
Your cable converter box, if you have one, works the same
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