On Sep 6, 9:32*am, spamme0 wrote:
William Sommerwerck wrote:
I don't understand how a VHS recorder can NOT have an RF/cable input, unless
it were designed solely for VHS to DVD dubs.

Take it back, and find one that does.

I went thru the same thing. *Sometime back, in preparation for the grand
debacle that is the US DTV transition, there became a rule
for any VCR sold in the USA. *If it had an RF tuner, it had to have
an ATSC tuner. *DTV is a poor match for VHS, so format conversion is
necessary. *Early on, there wasn't any HDTV to watch, so people
wouldn't pay the BIG cost increase for something that couldn't
record what was available, so VCR's became tunerless.
If it has an RF connector on the back, it's likely a passthru only.

What is posted above is what I have run into. All new VCR's, etc. are
sold without RF Modulators because of HDTV. I am trying to figure out
some way to make this work and the only thing I can think of is what I
posted above with hooking the old VCR to the new but running the risk
of screwing up the video because it is going through 2 devices.