Hi all
My mum and dad have a Panasonic TV, a few years old. They always use a VCR to record programs, but I have a spare Philips DVD recorder which I would like them to have as well.
Ideally I would like to connect all 3 up together, however, at the moment I can't get just the DVD connected correctly, so one step at a time!!
I have managed to connect the DVD recorder up successfully to my bedroom portable, firstly by just a scart lead, then after I established it was working ok, I connected the RF lead to the DVD recorder and another lead from the recorder to the TV. When the recorder was connected up to my TV in this way, I simply pressed the AV button until I got to whichever option was the DVD recorder (can't remember which it was), and this allowed me to view the playing DVD, or record channels 1 to 5.
However, when I connect it up to my mum and dad's TV, I can't seem to find it on screen if you know what I mean? Their TV has a TV/AV button, but pressing this doesn't show the usual EXT1, EXT2, options, instead it shows a black screen with AV1, AV2/5, AV3 on the coloured red, blue green and yellow buttons at the bottom of the screen. Pressing these doesn't seem to do anything.
The TV manual suggests that channel 0 is the one to view content from DVD/VCR, however, when selecting this channel the screen is all fuzzy. We have tried manually retuning this channel whilst playing a DVD, but nothing comes up on screen.
I really would appreciate any help with this, or to at least know that it will never work so I can give up trying!
TV is a Panasonic TX-32DTX11, colour TV with integrated Digital Terrestrial Decoder, and DVD recorder is a Philips DVDR3480.
Thanks in advance.
My mum and dad have a Panasonic TV, a few years old. They always use a VCR to record programs, but I have a spare Philips DVD recorder which I would like them to have as well.
Ideally I would like to connect all 3 up together, however, at the moment I can't get just the DVD connected correctly, so one step at a time!!
I have managed to connect the DVD recorder up successfully to my bedroom portable, firstly by just a scart lead, then after I established it was working ok, I connected the RF lead to the DVD recorder and another lead from the recorder to the TV. When the recorder was connected up to my TV in this way, I simply pressed the AV button until I got to whichever option was the DVD recorder (can't remember which it was), and this allowed me to view the playing DVD, or record channels 1 to 5.
However, when I connect it up to my mum and dad's TV, I can't seem to find it on screen if you know what I mean? Their TV has a TV/AV button, but pressing this doesn't show the usual EXT1, EXT2, options, instead it shows a black screen with AV1, AV2/5, AV3 on the coloured red, blue green and yellow buttons at the bottom of the screen. Pressing these doesn't seem to do anything.
The TV manual suggests that channel 0 is the one to view content from DVD/VCR, however, when selecting this channel the screen is all fuzzy. We have tried manually retuning this channel whilst playing a DVD, but nothing comes up on screen.
I really would appreciate any help with this, or to at least know that it will never work so I can give up trying!
TV is a Panasonic TX-32DTX11, colour TV with integrated Digital Terrestrial Decoder, and DVD recorder is a Philips DVDR3480.
Thanks in advance.