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Tip: Making use of old equipment - the humble VTR.

  • 21-10-2012 10:00pm
    #1
    larchill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭


    Yes, the oul video recorder! If you have one of these from the 90s on you'd have had a Scart socket, & an RF Out socket. One feature the video recorder has (which satellite, & terrestial boxes don't) is an RF modulator. Plug the RF Out socket into the RF In socket of your TV. Tune to the videos 'video channel'. Anything the video recorder sees will appear on your TV, the tape being played back, or whatever is plugged into the videos scart socket such as your Saorview box (select AV on the video).

    I've used the video recorder for just this task. The Saorview box has been plugged into the Scart socket & the RF Out has been plugged into a distribution amp running 2 other TVs one of which is so old that it doesn't even have a Scart socket! A very effective means of using old gear.

    DONT THROW AWAY THE OLD VIDEO RECORDER! :D


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  • #2
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Have to admit, in all my years messing with such stuff, I never called it a VTR, it was always VCR.

    Anyway what you say is grand, unless you had one of those hateful Philips VCR/VTR's that went automatically into standby after 10 minutes or so! :)


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    I've used VTRs. They had spools of tape. 1/2" 3/4" and 2"


  • #4
    larchill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭larchill


    Ah well, VCR or VTR or the 'oul 'video' its the same thing! Mine's a Panasonic from 1996, & doesn't go into standby. Would be a problem if it did though :p


  • #5
    reboot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭reboot


    watty wrote: »
    I've used VTRs. They had spools of tape. 1/2" 3/4" and 2"
    Microscope on field blanking to edit?


  • #6
    reboot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭reboot


    larchill wrote: »
    Yes, the oul video recorder! If you have one of these from the 90s on you'd have had a Scart socket, & an RF Out socket. One feature the video recorder has (which satellite, & terrestial boxes don't) is an RF modulator. Plug the RF Out socket into the RF In socket of your TV. Tune to the videos 'video channel'. Anything the video recorder sees will appear on your TV, the tape being played back, or whatever is plugged into the videos scart socket such as your Saorview box (select AV on the video).

    I've used the video recorder for just this task. The Saorview box has been plugged into the Scart socket & the RF Out has been plugged into a distribution amp running 2 other TVs one of which is so old that it doesn't even have a Scart socket! A very effective means of using old gear.

    DONT THROW AWAY THE OLD VIDEO RECORDER! :D

    You get my vote for the best ever thought experiment on Boards.!


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  • #7
    blastman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭blastman


    This is sort of related to the question I wanted to ask, so I'm going to post here. Do any Saorview boxes allow pass-through of the aerial signal like VCRs used to? This would be great for me as I could use a box for Saorview and still use the MPEG-2 tuner in my telly to pick up the UK channels with splitting the existing signal.


  • #8
    sesswhat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭sesswhat


    blastman wrote: »
    This is sort of related to the question I wanted to ask, so I'm going to post here. Do any Saorview boxes allow pass-through of the aerial signal like VCRs used to? This would be great for me as I could use a box for Saorview and still use the MPEG-2 tuner in my telly to pick up the UK channels with splitting the existing signal.

    I think all the approved boxes have rf loop-through.


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