Re: Using a VCR with no ch. 3 or 4

ms <ms@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:5dtgp9F35gbonU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

ms <ms@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:5dsqhqF35rki5U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Changed to roof antenna.

There is no local station on channel 3 or 4, and VCR's normally work
only on 3 or 4. My VCR is JVC brand, although that probably makes no
difference.

My TV scans from the first local channel at 2 and stops at 6, can't
get it to stay on 4.

How to be able to use the VCR to time programs and view tapes?

ms

The TV remote went bad several years ago. We have been on Dish Network
so there remote works but now off Dish Network, I use a universal
remote.

In the old days on cable, the cable menu was on 4, so the TV went to 4
and I programmed the VCR on 4. With Dish, they had the TV always on 3
for the Dish receiver, so the VCR culd be programmed.

Now on the roof antenna, since there is no local broadcast channel on
3/4 as was mentioned, I will try the advice. I have the manual, it
only describes the VCR autosetting to 3 or 4, (no switch), but the TV
is IMO the issue, so hopefully the advice will help.

I have an old 1985 TV with a manual channel switch, may have to try
that if nothing else works.

ms

Good advice and thanks, I have "some" results. BTW, all the wonderful
programming features are in the remote, Toshiba made a great 19" TV back
in 1994, working every night since then, but a crappy remote, so I can't
manually program channels. With the future of analog TV in doubt, I don't
want to spend $30 for a new Toshiba remote.

Results: with VCR antenna jack connected to TV, with tape in Play, as you
folks predicted, I get channel 4 fine. But of course, that's a test
circuit, can't use the VCR in that hookup.

With the normal antenna cable *near* the TV input, no luck, it scans
again.

Next step?

ms
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