Step 5 TV antenna or cable hookups (continued)

Hookup 4

Incompatible cable box with many scrambled channels

Recommended use

Use this hookup if your cable company cannot supply a cable box that is compatible with the VCR’s cable box control feature, and your cable system scrambles all or most channels.

What you can do with this hookup

• Record any channel by selecting the channel on the cable box

What you can’t do

Record with the cable box turned off

Record one channel while watching another channel

Select channels directly on the VCR

Wall

Cable box

 

IN

 

OUT

VCR

VHF/UHF

IN

OUT

or

or

Rear of TV

VHF/UHF

A Match the type of connector on your TV: A, B, or C.

VHF

 

B

For connector

 

types B and C, no

UHF

UHF connection

 

is required.

VHF

 

C

 

UHF

 

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