Are all of you "desiginated hooker-uppers" too?

Video Asylum

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I get called to hook up audio/video stuff for family and friends quite often.
Yesterday, my son's best friend called to say he had a new DVD/VHS deck and he wasn't sure how to hook it up. (I've been hooking stuff up for him since he roomed with my son at college in the mid-eighties). Then he called back to say he thought he had it. Then again to say he couldn't get TV sound through his stereo.
So I went out today so I could get him hooked up before the NASCAR Indy race started. He said he and his wife had been behind the stuff trying to hook it up but it wasn't quite right. Quite right? I found yellow video cord hooked into the DVD coax bitstream output, satellite video/audio output hooked into the VCR/DVD outputs,
numerous left/right errors, etc etc. I don't know how he even had a picture on the TV unless it was through the RF cable.
So anyway I got him all hooked up right and in phase and he was shocked that he could even play CD's in the DVD player - instead of just in the Magnavox CD player I got for him in 1986!

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Topic - Are all of you "desiginated hooker-uppers" too? - Hepcat 13:15:17 08/08/04 (5)

The problem is... - DavidLD 17:59:15 08/09/04 (1)

Re: The problem is... - johnvb 04:29:25 08/10/04 (0)

You bet. - grantv 06:53:43 08/09/04 (0)

Re: Are all of you "desiginated hooker-uppers" too? - Pam 17:40:55 08/08/04 (1)

Lol, Pam...Since most of my friends... - Harmonia 23:13:48 08/09/04 (0)

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