analog to digital converter box at radio shack

Select the AV input on the VCR and use the converter's remote to change channels that can be recorded. Use the yellow, red, and white RCA cables between the converter and the VCR. At that time, connect the converter box between the splitter and the VCR. Now, when they shut off analog broacasts, your VCR will stop receiving signals from the antenna.

When you want to watch the programs, switch the TV to the AV input that is connected to the VCR. But you can still record programs on the VCR while watching your new digital TV. The VCR is not able to receive ATSC signals. Use the TV's remote to switch 'Source' or 'Input' between the digital ATSC channels and the AV input (VCR). Plug the yellow, red, and white RCA cables from the VCR to the TV and note which TV input those cables are plugged into. The VCR will only receive the analog channels that you've always received. On the TV, you'll be able to watch all of the digital channels. Split the signal from the antenna to (1) the input of the VCR, and (2) the ATSC input of the TV. If I knew what I was doing, I'd probably have solved my problem!!

Seems like I'll have to know what I'm doing to get the right one. Might end up getting a (digital) DVR, if I have to. I learned that when I still had the TV in analog. It doesn't have a switch on the back-everything is programmed in.Īnyway, the converter allows the VCR to record in digital, but only the same program being watched or one programmed to record while not watching any. I have no idea if it's switched to 3 for some reason, since I can't access anything. The VCR has been set to channel 4 for years of analog use. The converter box is on channel 4, the unused channel in my area. Problem is that I can't pull up any menus for the converter box or the vcr. I connected A/V cables in the last step from the VCR to the TV, as Gunguy45 said. (Neither SONY nor the TV repair guy told me that.) I got a splitter and connected one cable to the ATSC port and one to the converter, then to the VCR, and then to the TV, just as tinner666 mentioned. Finally figured out there's a ATSC port on the back for the antenna cable (for digital) and I had been using the VHF/UHF port (for analog). For what it's worth, I originally got the converter box since I only have a rooftop antenna and was unable to switch the TV from analog to digital.

Analog to digital converter box at radio shack