On Friday, October 12, 2012 8:54:27 AM UTC-7, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:21:25 -0700 (PDT), klem kedidelhopper

[about getting composite video to a VCR, from a TV]

Why bother? Just find one of the cheap (junk) ATSC to NTSC converter
boxes that the government was subsidizing.

And, remember to hunt the menus for the automatic-shutoff
feature and disable it; these gizmos often save energy
by shutting themselves down if remote control signals aren't
sent every once in a while.

Your VCR won't be able to channel-select, in general, nor power-up
the converter at record time. Computer-based solutions are better.