| Interesting comments. 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. 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). (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. I connected A/V cables in the last step from the VCR to the TV, as Gunguy45 said. Problem is that I can't pull up any menus for the converter box or the vcr. The converter box is on channel 4, the unused channel in my area. (Channel 3 is NBC). The VCR has been set to channel 4 for years of analog use. I have no idea if it's switched to 3 for some reason, since I can't access anything. It doesn't have a switch on the back--everything is programmed in.
Anyway, 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 learned that when I still had the TV in analog. Confused? Me, too. Might end up getting a (digital) DVR, if I have to. Seems like I'll have to know what I'm doing to get the right one. If I knew what I was doing, I'd probably have solved my problem!!  |