Okay, Guys -- HELP! This is strictly a TV/VCR hook up question and nothing to do with
DTV.
Equipment -- Samsung LN32N460
LCD TV GO Video
DVR 5000
System is basic everything -- no
HD, no
DVI, no
HDMI (except what is noted below)... just a regular cable box and VCR etc.
Now the VCR is old.. It's not a
DVR as we think of DVRS -- it's a combination DVD/VCR player and the model is
DVR 5000.
Here's the deal. We can't get it to play on the new TV. Does old equipment not work with new? This is the question. We've done everything we can think of to try and get this to work, but we can't get anything, not even simple playback.
We've done what the manual says -- which is CABLE in from wall to CABLE BOX and then to TV ANT IN. Then we hooked the RCA jacks from VCR OUT to TV IN. Nothing.
Then we tried the set up that we have with other units and had on this one -- CABLE IN FROM WALL to VCR ANT IN and then a separate cable from VCR ANT OUT to TV ANT IN. And adding the RCA jacks again. Still nothing.
We even tried something I've never done which is attaching two sets of RCA jacks, one going from CABLE BOX OUT to VCR IN and then another from VCR OUT to TV IN. Still nothing.
Sometimes we get it so that the VCR registers as a 'source' on the TV, like AV1 or COMPONENT 1, but nothing.
We called Samsung and they were useless. They said the VCR doesn't work and we'd have to call them. Well, it worked on my other TVs. I asked them if the technology was such that old stuff wouldn't work. They said no, that everything should work.
So -- we're stuck. Now one more interesting note, though. My sister also brought over a DVD that's a couple of years old that she's had. When she first plugged it in, nothing happened. After playing around with it a bit, she could get picture but no sound at all. Also, when the picture played there were these lines or something at the beginning. It was very odd. But then she got me an
HDMI cable and she hooked the DVD up to the
HDMI cable, and now it works just fine with picture and sound.
We cannot figure this out. We've done every combination of CABLE connection and RCA connection that we can think of.
Any ideas?
