Hi All

Remember me? The person who still uses VCR's.

Well, I need yet another one.

We use 3 in this house. My two original silver panasonic omnivision work horses STILL ARE GOING GOOD. The third one has this line going through it. I hooked up another one I had laying around my house. The play heads are fine. The recording heads are horrible.

So I took myself to my local video store and they have the Sony dvd/vcr combo. It's affordable. I'll probably get it eventually.

But I have questions first.

In my living room I have a vcr and my directv. This is hooked up using RCA cables. The red, white and yellow things.

At the video store I made sure to look and see how the vcr/dvd combo would be connected and sure enough it said something about line out something or other. It had the image on the box and sure enough I recognized the red white and yellow things.

I said to myself "this setup process looks like what I have going on in my living room." Sure enough when I got home, I looked at the back and there was the red yellow and white thing.

So I went into my electronic drawer in my house and I pulled out a set of RCA cables. Each side has three things. RED YELLOW AND WHITE.

I went back to look in the back of the vcr in my living room and noticed the RCA cables are a bit different.

One end of the RCA thing has 3 things going into the back of my directv box. One yellow, one red, one white.

The OTHER end has 6 things going into the back of the vcr.

So the other end has 2 REDs, 2 YELLOWS and 2 WHITES (going in the back of the VCR).

I am completely confused. All the RCA cables in my house have 3 at each end. Why does the living room RCA thing have 3 at one end and 6 at the other end.

Are there various kinds of RCA cables?

I know you all have the dvr things but we can't do that right now, so I'm still a vcr person. I went to youtube and tried to find a video on hooking up a vcr/dvd combo but all they do is show the unit, not how to hook it up.

I can do this, but I just want to understand the difference in the RCA cables.

Thanks much

Melody.

I'd just try matching up the colors and see if it works - some might just be extra for surround sound or something.

Is the TV or anything labled?
red & blue or white ??= left or right - sound
yellow is video

if cable box goes to TV then TV wires go to vcr

so tv video yellow goes out to vcr video in

oh here ya go this explains it better and has some pictures -
http://www.ehow.com/how_4842142_up-v...analog-tv.html
or here's more if that one doesn't help-
http://www.google.com/search?q=hooki...ient=firefox-a