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How do I defeat VCR's blue screen?
I have two different working cable-ready consumer-grade VCRs I use for cable (they also act as the cable converter). If I flip to a channel I shouldn't get, since the tuner cannot lock onto a clear picture, the VCRs flips to a blue screen. How do I defeat the blue screen on either VCR? The VCR menus are very basic, and the external switches are few. I presume there must be a switch, maybe inside, to permit me to see the scrambled or poor quality picture instead of the blocking blue screen. One VCR is a Panasonic, the other is an RCA. I've seen the same effect from many other VCRs, and some cable-ready TVs, too. How can the blue screen be defeated without the use of an external cable box? Thanks in advance. Scott |
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How do I defeat VCR's blue screen?
"Scott Ehrlich" wrote in message news:UXkrb.110681$9E1.547817@attbi_s52... I have two different working cable-ready consumer-grade VCRs I use for cable (they also act as the cable converter). If I flip to a channel I shouldn't get, since the tuner cannot lock onto a clear picture, the VCRs flips to a blue screen. How do I defeat the blue screen on either VCR? The VCR menus are very basic, and the external switches are few. I presume there must be a switch, maybe inside, to permit me to see the scrambled or poor quality picture instead of the blocking blue screen. One VCR is a Panasonic, the other is an RCA. I've seen the same effect from many other VCRs, and some cable-ready TVs, too. How can the blue screen be defeated without the use of an external cable box? It is almost certainly hard-coded into the firmware. I doubt very much if there is anything you can do to change that behavior short of re-writing and retro- loading the microprocessor code. |
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How do I defeat VCR's blue screen?
If there is no option in the user menu, there is no easy way. The software
for this is written in to the firmware code of the uPC. Get a colour black source such as from a TV sync generator, or use a video camera with the lens cap on it as a black source going in to the external input of the machine. As long as it sees video coming in, it should not give you a blue screen. -- Greetings, Jerry Greenberg GLG Technologies GLG ========================================= WebPage http://www.zoom-one.com Electronics http://www.zoom-one.com/electron.htm ========================================= "Scott Ehrlich" wrote in message news:UXkrb.110681$9E1.547817@attbi_s52... I have two different working cable-ready consumer-grade VCRs I use for cable (they also act as the cable converter). If I flip to a channel I shouldn't get, since the tuner cannot lock onto a clear picture, the VCRs flips to a blue screen. How do I defeat the blue screen on either VCR? The VCR menus are very basic, and the external switches are few. I presume there must be a switch, maybe inside, to permit me to see the scrambled or poor quality picture instead of the blocking blue screen. One VCR is a Panasonic, the other is an RCA. I've seen the same effect from many other VCRs, and some cable-ready TVs, too. How can the blue screen be defeated without the use of an external cable box? Thanks in advance. Scott |
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How do I defeat VCR's blue screen?
"Richard Crowley" wrote in message ... "Scott Ehrlich" wrote in message news:UXkrb.110681$9E1.547817@attbi_s52... I have two different working cable-ready consumer-grade VCRs I use for cable (they also act as the cable converter). If I flip to a channel I shouldn't get, since the tuner cannot lock onto a clear picture, the VCRs flips to a blue screen. How do I defeat the blue screen on either VCR? The VCR menus are very basic, and the external switches are few. I presume there must be a switch, maybe inside, to permit me to see the scrambled or poor quality picture instead of the blocking blue screen. One VCR is a Panasonic, the other is an RCA. I've seen the same effect from many other VCRs, and some cable-ready TVs, too. How can the blue screen be defeated without the use of an external cable box? It is almost certainly hard-coded into the firmware. I doubt very much if there is anything you can do to change that behavior short of re-writing and retro- loading the microprocessor code. My (old) Mitsubishi HS-U770 has a switchable video mute as a menu item. Most VCRs do not. Bill |
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How do I defeat VCR's blue screen?
I found ancient runes from Jason ] in the floor of
sci.electronics.repair: Nothing you can do with VCR or combos. But you do have choice with TV JVC sets that I know for sure. They have option for noise muting, turn it off gives you snow or a noisy pix instead of blue. I have an LG TV which has an option that turns off the TV after a time (10 mins IIRC) of no or bad reception. Otherwise it just stays on the noisy station. -- 'You receive a scroll of signature. It says:' Chaos Master® - Posting from Porto Alegre - Brazil. E-mail address is yummy food for spammers®. |
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How do I defeat VCR's blue screen?
"Jerry G." wrote:
If there is no option in the user menu, there is no easy way. The software for this is written in to the firmware code of the uPC. Get a colour black source such as from a TV sync generator, or use a video camera with the lens cap on it as a black source going in to the external input of the machine. As long as it sees video coming in, it should not give you a blue screen. -- Greetings, Jerry Greenberg How is that supposed to help? he can't see what he wants, so you want him to hook it to a different video source? -- Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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How do I defeat VCR's blue screen?
I found ancient runes from ] in the floor of
sci.electronics.repair: Install Linux ? No blue screens. Or Mac OS X. At least it gets user-friendly. -- 'You receive a scroll of signature. It says:' Chaos Master® - Posting from Porto Alegre - Brazil. E-mail address is yummy food for spammers®. |
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How do I defeat VCR's blue screen?
Chaos Master wrote in message . ..
I found ancient runes from ] in the floor of sci.electronics.repair: Install Linux ? No blue screens. Or Mac OS X. At least it gets user-friendly. Yeah - try getting MacOS to crash. It seems pretty stable. ;-) -A |
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How do I defeat VCR's blue screen?
Install Linux ? No blue screens.
Or Mac OS X. At least it gets user-friendly. Or download X-Setup and change the blue screen of death to a different colour.... Peter |
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