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|    Alan Zisman to TOM WALKER    |
|    Recording TV    |
|    24 Mar 14 20:19:22    |
      On 2014-03-24, 5:27 AM, TOM WALKER -> HOLGER GRANHOLM wrote:               HG>>> Well, the VCR's are from the pre-HD era.               TW>>> Plus I don't recal any Curent VCR that even has a tunder in it. you        TW>>> need to use an Off the Air Digital to Analog converter that has        TW>>> analog video out               HG>> I'm connected to a cable net and consequently do not have access to        HG>> Off-tha-Air Digital channels.               TW> That is really what the tunerless VCR were designed for. Use with a        TW> Cable box with analog Video and Audio out for feeding into the        TW> Recorder. Adn of course you need to either buy or rent a box for each        TW> recorder you wanted to record with.        TW> That is paty of why I decided go with a 4 channel capable Digital        TW> Recorder. The other part was the disappearing of Video Tapes from the        TW> Market.        TW> ---       When my local cable company switched to digital and supplied me and other       customers with digital boxes, I was told that to record to my VCR I should set       it to Channel 3 and it would record whatever channel the digital box was set       to display... in other words, use it as a 'tunerless VCR'.              --- Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunde        * Origin: Fidonet Via Newsreader - http://www.easternstar.info (1:123/789.0)    |
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