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Old 29-05-2011, 18:35
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I must be in Bank Holiday thicko mode. I have hundreds of videos and have been putting on DVDs. I have made good progress doing that. Fine so far. The (Sony, no relevance but why keep a 'story' short?!) DVD player I used started to get 'temperamental'. At the same time my special video recorder I can play Brazilian tapes in colour went similarly temperamental. So I decided on converting PAL tapes by substituting my special VCR with a DVD/VCR combi. I then substituted the temperamental DVD recorder with a cheapo LiteOn DVD recorder. Now I can't remember how to connect anything! I have made an effort but thought the better solution to me losing my cool and chucking something around was to come here!

In answer to the inevitable question as to why I do not simply stick a PAL tape and a disk in my DVD/VCR combi, I have tried that and sometimes it worked and others it simply had a mind of its own and stopped after 15 minutes or at some other random moment.

Existing set up before problems: tri standard/special VCR to Sony DVD recorder (not combi)

New set up once I find my brain/someone helps me here: DVD/VCR combi (bit only using VCR part of it) to LiteOn DVD recorder.

I have probably bored the pants off everyone, but if there is a mere one out there..........
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Old 29-05-2011, 23:49
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Connect a scart lead from TV Output scart socket on your VCR/DVD combi, to AV2 or Decoder input scart socket on your DVD Recorder. Select AV2 on the DVD Recorder. Most DVD recorders have 2 sockets, and/or if the DVD Recorder has a UHF or RF aerial connection, try and connect the two via a aerial lead and tune the DVD into the Combi. Play a tape so that the DVD is able to tune in.
The latter method worked for me.
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Old 30-05-2011, 00:05
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Thank you. My Brazilian/special VCR has now decided to accept tapes again, so I might be OK. I will follow instructions if/when it goes wrong again!
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Old 30-05-2011, 21:49
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I'm not quite sure what you're up to but from what I can see you have a VCR that plays Brazilian tapes which I believe use the US NTSC format.

Its worth noting that UK VCR's will play NTSC tapes out in a format called PAL 60.
This is not true NTSC , its a trick that goes back to the days when UK tv's had a hard time playing NTSC content.

The drawback is that the most dvd recorders will not record a PAL 60 signal , they need the pure NTSC signal that your VCR cannot deliver (unless it is a genuine multi standard VCR).

Pioneer and Philips recorders both accept PAL 60.

I'm not sure thats what you need but I've said it anyway
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Old 31-05-2011, 00:52
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Thanks. Brazil is PAL M not NTSC. I am transferring loads of stuff to DVD, and that, in a nutshell, is what I am up to! The latest: my Sony combi and my Sony DVD recorders, as the recipient recorders, i.e. the ones I am copying to from my revitalised special VCR shut down randomly. I am reverting to my cheapo LiteOn DVD recorder and am tempted to dump the Sony recorders and get a new combi. What a pain.........
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Old 31-05-2011, 21:09
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When you say shutdown do you mean they stop recording or they completely power off by themselves?
If its the former, could copy protection be the issue?

Any dvd recorder that reads a copy protection signal will usually refuse to record
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Old 31-05-2011, 21:16
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Stop recording rather than shutdown -on reflection. Copy protection is unlikely since they are simply things taken from the TV, so no question rights existing I would have thought. And they used to work well the Sony ones...........
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Old 01-06-2011, 15:56
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Hi I have a tape player in my car with a spare slot below that i want to fit a cd player in. Can I have both in the car and working and is it an easy job?

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Old 01-06-2011, 15:57
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Sorry
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Old 01-06-2011, 22:45
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Stop recording rather than shutdown -on reflection. Copy protection is unlikely since they are simply things taken from the TV, so no question rights existing I would have thought. And they used to work well the Sony ones...........
If they just stop recording that would normally indicate copy protection.
But if they are off tv then that should not be an issue although if the tape has any damage anywhere that could trigger it too.

I've not used PAL M gear before but if its anything like NTSC you will find that most recorders require a 100% pure signal so could your UK PAL dvdr dislike the foreign PAL variant?
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Old 11-06-2011, 23:52
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I am still pondering.........just want to make sure the combi plays Brazilian tapes in colour.
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