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From: Cardinal Creek on 17 Mar 2010 00:33
The only thing that lets me see something on the TV is the HDMI
selection on the TV remote. The only thing that changes the channels
is the cable remote--pressing numbers on the TV and VCR remotes
doesn't do anything-the show on the screen stays the same. The wiring
is the same as it was the day the VCR was installed several months
ago. The tape is fairly new and everything was doing fine before I
started pressing buttons to find out how to change the clock. So far,
any taping I've done is taping a show that is on the screen at the
moment--have not tried to program a show to be taped later. If we can
get back to just instant taping that will be ok. Taping at this
produces only a black screen.

Some things I've noticed on the VCR remote--the only buttons that work
are the playing, stopping, forward and backward buttons, the rec/otr
button and the input button. None of the other buttons bring up
anything on screen, including the setup button, which is the first
step in programming and probably in setting the clock. Cannot bring up
an menus. I'm wondering if the remote and/or the the VCR is/are
defective.

When the cable guy tried to help me (he got me to the HDMI button), he
had me press the VCR, TV, and Cable buttons on the cable remote, then
turn power off, then back on.

In my own meagre defense: for 5 or 10 years I've had TV's with VCR's
attached. Got a separate VCR when one of those TV VCR's failed. So far
I've had to rely on Geek Squad to get me set up, but not even that guy
could get it so that ALL of these functions could be done with one
remote.

I am grateful for any help you can give me.
From: Sansui Samari on 17 Mar 2010 05:59
On Mar 16, 9:33 pm, Cardinal Creek <cardinalcreek...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The only thing that lets me see something on the TV is the HDMI
> selection on the TV remote. The only thing that changes the channels
> is the cable remote--pressing numbers on the TV and VCR remotes
> doesn't do anything-the show on the screen stays the same. The wiring
> is the same as it was the day the VCR was installed several months
> ago. The tape is fairly new and everything was doing fine before I
> started pressing buttons to find out how to change the clock. So far,
> any taping I've done is taping a show that is on the screen at the
> moment--have not tried to program a show to be taped later. If we can
> get back to just instant taping that will be ok. Taping at this
> produces only a black screen.
>
> Some things I've noticed on the VCR remote--the only buttons that work
> are the playing, stopping, forward and backward buttons, the rec/otr
> button and the input button. None of the other buttons bring up
> anything on screen, including the setup button, which is the first
> step in programming and probably in setting the clock. Cannot bring up
> an menus. I'm wondering if the remote and/or the the VCR is/are
> defective.
>
> When the cable guy tried to help me (he got me to the HDMI button), he
> had me press the VCR, TV, and Cable buttons on the cable remote, then
> turn power off, then back on.
>
> In my own meagre defense: for 5 or 10 years I've had TV's with VCR's
> attached. Got a separate VCR when one of those TV VCR's failed. So far
> I've had to rely on Geek Squad to get me set up, but not even that guy
> could get it so that ALL of these functions could be done with one
> remote.
>
> I am grateful for any help you can give me.

Admit defeat, and read a book. Maybe one on VCRs.

There are so many variations on hooking up a piece of multimedia
equipment now days that it's hard to guess what to check. If you
could describe how it is hooked up, it would help greatly. Also maybe
the model of the connected equipment (Television, cable box, vcr, dvd
player, &c...), so that we may look in the user manuals.

J
From: William Sommerwerck on 17 Mar 2010 07:54
I'm afraid you're going to have to sit down and /learn/ exactly how this
equipment works. If the self-proclaimed experts <grin> in this group can't
figure out what's going on, you'll have to put out some effort on your own.


From: Sylvia Else on 17 Mar 2010 07:55
On 17/03/2010 10:54 PM, William Sommerwerck wrote:
> I'm afraid you're going to have to sit down and /learn/ exactly how this
> equipment works. If the self-proclaimed experts<grin> in this group can't
> figure out what's going on, you'll have to put out some effort on your own.
>
>

The OP may never get it. Some people have blind-spots.

My mother, not otherwise unintelligent, could never understand how the
VCR could record a TV program when the TV itself was away being repaired.

Sylvia.
From: William Sommerwerck on 17 Mar 2010 08:04
>> I'm afraid you're going to have to sit down and /learn/ exactly
>> how this equipment works. If the self-proclaimed experts<grin>
>> in this group can't figure out what's going on, you'll have to put
>> out some effort on your own.

> The OP may never get it. Some people have blind-spots. My mother,
> not otherwise unintelligent, could never understand how the VCR
> could record a TV program when the TV itself was away being repaired.

Did the explanation that the VCR had its own little TV receiver inside it
make any sense to her? It should have.

My father -- who was of ordinary intelligence -- could not understand the
phonograph-record metaphor when I tried to explain how a hard drive worked.


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