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Re: Cabling DVD, VCR, and older TV

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Most DVD players and movies are equipped with copy protection (Macrovision, I believe it's called). This prevents you from recording the DVD material. So, your VCR is not able to pick up a consistent signal, as you noted. All very normal.

So, short of your suggestions of a new TV or HT receiver/pre-amp, you could use the coax cable connection to view the VCR playback and use the RCA (analog) inputs for the DVD player.

Michael


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