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Hooking up a TV Tuner
that I have to have the VCR on in order to watch TV. I have antenna chosen and a composite cable going to the TV tuner cards viedo input. I also have the RF output of the vcr going to the RF input of the Tuner. any suggestions or needs? Thanks On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:09:11 GMT, TonyB <T***@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>I have this card TV tuner hooked up to my vcr's video output. It seems Once the VCR is off, or when the VCR/TV switch on the VCR is set to>that I have to have the VCR on in order to watch TV. I have antenna >chosen and a composite cable going to the TV tuner cards viedo input. I >also have the RF output of the vcr going to the RF input of the Tuner. >any suggestions or needs? Thanks > TV, then the signal should pass through via the RF out to the antenna input of the tuner card. So, make sure the connections are all correct, e.g., the RF out from the VCR is to the card's antenna input. Also, you may need to program the card to scan for channels so you can use the card's tuner. Gary E -- Show quoteHide quote|Gary A. Edelstein |edelsgNO@SPAMyahoo.com.invalid (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo On 3/17/2006, Gary A. Edelstein managed to type:
Show quoteHide quote > On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:09:11 GMT, TonyB <T***@nyc.rr.com> wrote: I guess it's worth mentioning that the VCR's RF output is likely to be > >> I have this card TV tuner hooked up to my vcr's video output. It seems >> that I have to have the VCR on in order to watch TV. I have antenna >> chosen and a composite cable going to the TV tuner cards viedo input. I >> also have the RF output of the vcr going to the RF input of the Tuner. >> any suggestions or needs? Thanks >> > Once the VCR is off, or when the VCR/TV switch on the VCR is set to > TV, then the signal should pass through via the RF out to the antenna > input of the tuner card. So, make sure the connections are all > correct, e.g., the RF out from the VCR is to the card's antenna input. > Also, you may need to program the card to scan for channels so you can > use the card's tuner. > > Gary E on channel 3 or 4 ... Come to think of it, maybe I should point out that that means the OP should tune his TV tuner card to channel 3 or 4 to see if he gets the picture (Pun intended? No, but accepted anyway). Gino -- Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251 (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom") On 3/17/2006, Gary A. Edelstein managed to type:
Show quoteHide quote > In article <mn.8ad67d63940c440d.1980@nobody.invalid>, spamfree@nobody.invalid Thanks, Gary.> says... >> >> >> On 3/17/2006, Gary A. Edelstein managed to type: >>> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:09:11 GMT, TonyB <T***@nyc.rr.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I have this card TV tuner hooked up to my vcr's video output. It seems >>>> that I have to have the VCR on in order to watch TV. I have antenna >>>> chosen and a composite cable going to the TV tuner cards viedo input. I >>>> also have the RF output of the vcr going to the RF input of the Tuner. >>>> any suggestions or needs? Thanks >>>> >>> Once the VCR is off, or when the VCR/TV switch on the VCR is set to >>> TV, then the signal should pass through via the RF out to the antenna >>> input of the tuner card. So, make sure the connections are all >>> correct, e.g., the RF out from the VCR is to the card's antenna input. >>> Also, you may need to program the card to scan for channels so you can >>> use the card's tuner. >>> >>> Gary E >> >> I guess it's worth mentioning that the VCR's RF output is likely to be >> on channel 3 or 4 ... >> >> Come to think of it, maybe I should point out that that means the OP >> should tune his TV tuner card to channel 3 or 4 to see if he gets the >> picture (Pun intended? No, but accepted anyway). >> > VHF channels 3 or 4 are where the signal will be if the VCR is on and the > VCR/TV button is set to VCR. However, the advice I gave to the OP was to > turn the VCR off or set the VCR/TV button to TV. That way, the VCR should > simply pass what is being fed into it directly to the RF out. He wants the > tuner card to work without the VCR being on. > > Gary E I should have read more carefully! -- Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251 (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom") Gary A. Edelstein wrote:
Show quoteHide quote > On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:09:11 GMT, TonyB <T***@nyc.rr.com> wrote: Thanks, I did do the autoscan in the antenna mode, which is coming from > > >>I have this card TV tuner hooked up to my vcr's video output. It seems >>that I have to have the VCR on in order to watch TV. I have antenna >>chosen and a composite cable going to the TV tuner cards viedo input. I >>also have the RF output of the vcr going to the RF input of the Tuner. >>any suggestions or needs? Thanks >> > > Once the VCR is off, or when the VCR/TV switch on the VCR is set to > TV, then the signal should pass through via the RF out to the antenna > input of the tuner card. So, make sure the connections are all > correct, e.g., the RF out from the VCR is to the card's antenna input. > Also, you may need to program the card to scan for channels so you can > use the card's tuner. > > Gary E > -- > |Gary A. Edelstein > |edelsgNO@SPAMyahoo.com.invalid (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) > |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo my HDTV reciever to the RF of the VCR via a splitter. The splitter goes to the regular TV input and the other goes to my Computers RF input. The VCR's composite is going to the Computers TV card composite video. I do not get anything on the vcr's chnl 3 or the TV tuner's chnl 3. All I get is the blue screen. ..But once I change channels on my vcr then I see them on the computers TV. So the vcr is controlling my Computers TV. So all I am able to view is regular tv, I do not have cable. I will get cable next week, then that will really create a mess. On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:43:35 GMT, TonyB <T***@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>Thanks, I did do the autoscan in the antenna mode, which is coming from Ah, I see, you didn't mention that you were feeding the VCR antenna in>my HDTV reciever to the RF of the VCR via a splitter. The splitter goes >to the regular TV input and the other goes to my Computers RF input. The >VCR's composite is going to the Computers TV card composite video. I do >not get anything on the vcr's chnl 3 or the TV tuner's chnl 3. All I get >is the blue screen. ..But once I change channels on my vcr then I see >them on the computers TV. So the vcr is controlling my Computers TV. So >all I am able to view is regular tv, I do not have cable. I will get >cable next week, then that will really create a mess. > with a HDTV receiver. I assume that receiver's RF out is on a VHF channel, probably ch. 2, 3 or 4. Try setting the tuner card's tuner to VHF channel 2, 3 or 4. Make sure the VCR is off or the VCR TV/VCR button is on TV. When you get cable hook the cable up directly to the VCR's antenna in and then rescan all the channels on both the VCR tuner and the card's tuner. Scan with the card's tuner with the VCR off or the VCR's TV/VCR switch set to TV. Set the VCR's and the card's tuner for standard analog cable. You should be able to tune in cable nonscrambled analog stations on the VCR as well as the TV tuner card. Keep the HDTV receiver hooked up to the VCR and/or the tuner card only via A/V outs, not the RF out. Gary E -- Show quoteHide quote|Gary A. Edelstein |edelsgNO@SPAMyahoo.com.invalid (remove NO SPAM and .invalid to reply) |"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo 
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