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CHAPTER 4 - CONNECTING YOUR DUAL-DECK VCR 43
Connecting Your
Dual-Deck VCR
Introduction
Your exact hookup will depend on whether or not you
subscribe to cable, and whether you have a cable
converter box or other equipment. However, the basic
idea is the same.
The signal (whether antenna, cable, or satellite)
coming into your house needs two things for the
program to appear on your TV: cables and tuners.
First, the signal travels through a cable.
Second, the signal goes to a device with a tuner such
as your TV or VCR. The tuner selects the one channel
that you are watching from the many channels that
you have available.
After you have chosen the desired channel with this
tuner, the device may convert the signal into the
audio and video that you see on your television
screen, or it may rebroadcast the signal, on a pre-set
channel, to another device.
For example, a cable may go into a device with a tuner
(a cable box or VCR) and have a cable going from this
device into another tuner such as your TV. This
means that the channel selected on the first tuner
(Cable box or VCR) is the one that the second tuner
(TV) will pick up. This is why you select your TV
channels using your VCR remote control. The signal is
coming to the VCR which tunes in the channel you
select and sends that channel to the TV. This is also
why, if you have a cable converter box, you select TV
channels using the cable converter box.
When one tuner sends a signal for a channel to the
next tuner, the first tuner always uses a particular
channel of its own to broadcast on. For example, your
VCR uses either channel 3 or 4. If your VCR is set to
broadcast on channel 3, you must set your TV to
channel 3 to receive this signal.
So, to watch TV channel 12, you would tune in channel
12 on your VCR and channel 3 or your TV. Your con-
verter box, if you have one, works the same way.
CHAPTER
4
To determine the hookup
you need:
1. If you don’t have a cable
system, use the Basic
Connections.
2. If you have a cable system
but no converter box, use
the Basic Cable Connections.
3. If you have a cable system
with a converter box (some
or all channels are scrambled
or premium), use Cable
Converter Box Hookup (or
Alternative Cable Converter
Box Hookup).
POWER
TV ViewStop/Eject
DECK 1
AUDIO
L
VIDEO
V
TV/VCR Stop/Eject Rewind Play Fast Forward Pause Record Deck Select Clear Menu SelectChange
DECK 2
Ch Dn Ch Up
COPY TAPE
ANTENNA
Signal
TV
VCR