DTV issues

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 7 Dec 2008 at 17:14, Sid Schweiger wrote:

> Play?  Yes.  Record?  Probably not.  The few current models of VCR are
> being sold without tuners, because it's considered a nearly-dead tech
> by the manufacturers.  DVD recorders would need a digital tuner, and
> so far I haven't seen any that have it.

But all I want to do is continue using the VCR and DVD player that I 
already have.  I have cable, and I assume that if my VCR (which has 
an analog tuner) is connected to cable, I'll still be able to record 
shows with it, just as I can watch shows with an analog TV.  And I 
assume that if I connect the adaptor to a VCR, it will record a 
program just as it always has.
 
> The few digital TVs I've seen have at least one regular set of line
> inputs (video, audio-L and audio-R) and one set of 480p
> color-separated inputs for a DVD player (labeled Y, Pr and Pb).

Since an older VCR doesn't have those connections, I hope there is a 
regular input jack to connect a regular coax. 

For that matter, I've occasionally wondered how I would connect a DVD 
player to one of my older TVs, which has neither the three-plug video 
inputs nor an S-video jack.

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