Can anyone reccomend a board for questions on VCR/DVD recorders or can anyone here help me? I don't know where else to turn with this and I am at my wints end after 2 days. I have an analog TV in my bedroom hooked to regular cable, no digital box. My plain old VCR died and went to get a new one and was informed I have to find a VCR/DVD player with a tuner for this TV since I don't have the digital box up there. Best buy has and LG one but every one in the area is out. Found a Sylvania at Walmart that is VCR/DVD recorder and we wanted a DVD recorder anyway. Don't have the red, yellow and white jacks on the back of this TV you need so also got an RF modulator and the guy from radio shack gave me a nice diagram to hook it all up and I got it working. Set timer to record and was watching TV when recording came on and TV goes fuzzy. Sylvania informs me you can't watch one channel and tape another and I am used to doing that. Are there any VCR/DVD recorders that will let you watch one channel and tape another or is that obslete now? Someone said I might see if they make one with a dual tuner, does that even exist? It would have been nice if they stated it does not do this in their specs before I got home and hooked it all up. Mary

I'm not sure how you were previously able to watch and record at the same time. But you really need a newer TV with the yellow, red and white jacks. Then you could use a splitter to hook your cable up to both the TV and VCR. That would allow you to connect your VCR to the TV with the yellow, red and white jacks. The TV will have an option to select between the cable input and the colored jacks input. I tried the RF modulator thing a while back and discovered that it wouldn't work with chnl 3 and chnl 4 outputs. Their frequencies are too close together. Maybe it's time to get a new TV and swap the one you have now to another place in the house.

If you still have your old VCR use it for your tuner. Put a splitter on your cable to feed the new recorder. Feed the out from the recorder to the inputs of the old VCR. Use the input select to switch signal sources.

Thanks. My bowling partner tonight said I should be able to use a splitter on the set up I have now and made me a diagram of what to do so will try that. I have owned a VCR since they first came out and I was always able to watch one channel and tape another but back then we didn't have cable at home and here I don't have a digital box upstairs so I guess that's why. I have no place to put this TV is the problem as my son already has one in his room and we have one in the kitchen and one in the living room. Besides it's 27 inches and works perfectly fine so don't want to swap it out. The modulator is working fine in my set up with no problems. I still put the TV on 3 same as I did before and then turn the VCR on and no problem. Now if I figure out the splitter I will be all set. Mary

Hello Mary, you can go to the videohelp for more info and questions about the VCR/DVD: http://forum.videohelp.com/ That's a big froum, you can post your questions there.