Two months ago I purchased a combination (not by choice) Toshiba DVD Video Player/Video Cassette Recorder mainly to tape certain TV programs if I am not going to be at home. This is a tunerless contraption and I think I finally figured out how to set the time for beginning/ending of a recording, BUT: how do I enter in the TV channel number I want to record? As an example: I want to record channel 7 at 12:00 noon and end it at 1:00 - but all I see is choosing a "program number ", which means to me that if I have chosen to record 5 other programs, for instance, the first available number to "program" and which is flashing is number 6. This is all Greek to me - what am I not getting? How do I tell this thing I want to record channel 7? Manuals are all written as if we know something they are leaving out. I need a manual for dummies!

Earlier this year, Mediacom installed a cable converter box in our apts. and I have a new digital TV so everything is set to go, but I just have not figured out how to set this recorder to the correct channel I want to record. I guess I should have purchased a more expensive recorder with a tuner, but too late now. Help! Thanks...