Just purchased an Insignia DVD Recorder and am having trouble connecting the TV to the cable box to the DVD recorder. Would appreciate any input, thanks.
Connect the cable box to the recorder with s-video or RCA cables, and set the recorder on whatever input you used. Connect the recorder to the TV with, in order of preference, component cables, s-video, RCA cables. Then set the TV on whatever input you used. If using component or s-video, you still need RCAs for audio.
I too just bought a DVD-R120 Samsung along with a Sony Wega HD TV. The cables from the DVD are connected to HD/DVD on back of the TV. The TV is also connected to a cable box and the box is connected to a VCR. My problem is that when I go the the Video 5 screen on the TV, it shows 'no signal'. I disconnected the cable from the VCR and then connected it to the DVD, but I still receive 'no signal. In addition, I put a disc in the player and didn't have sound. This is my first DVD and Im at my wits end. Can u help me?
Connect the DVD to the TV with the triple component cables for video and the 2 RCAs for audio. Use the progressive scan on the DVD for better quality video. Connect the box to the recorder with s-video or RCA cables and set the recorder on whatever input you used. If using s-video, preferable, you still need RCAs for audio.
I have purchased the insignia DVD recorder/vcr combo and am trying to connect it to a television and my Bose stereo system. The TV has a million input positions and I am just lost. The cable system does not have a box, so that everything runs throught the TV, not a cable box. I have tried several connections, but cannot get the TV or DVD to play through the audio on the Bose. Help!!
Yorkie
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Please help. I am new to all this stuff so bear with me. I am having trouble hearing my audio on both TV speakers when I want to record a VCR tape to my DVD recorder. I hear both speakers on the right and left on the VCR imput channel but when I go to Video 1 (DVD imput) and record off the VCR, I only hear the right speaker on the TV during DVD playback. (all equipment is Sony brand and brand new) TV is HD. I do have the split Y wire to the two left and right plugs for audio and have the output(back of VCR) and imput (in on front of DVD recorder)for the yellow (video) and audio R&L plugs. It's an old plug, red and black but I do plug in the red one to the red jack. The VCR is new and has stereo selected in the audio setup. Why is this happening? What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help.
rosendo
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i have a cable box and a vcr hooked up and they both work and i want to install a dvd player but i need help.
I just installed insignia on our Tv and everything is working but when I playback something I have recorded, the recording timer appears on the top left of the screen. How can I get rid of it ? I've looked everywhere on all menus, setup and edit sub menus and basically punch every possible button on the remote but to no avail....help anyone ?
sherchat
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Sofee - you can turn off that timer by using the OSD button on the bottom right of your remote - you may need to push a few times as it has 4-5 views that it will show..
Bruce Robinson
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I bought an Insignia DVD recorder, and connected it to our Motorola DVR via a s-video cable. I connected the DVD to my TV set.
The video signal passes through the DVD recorder fine and is visible on the TV set. But after I insert a DVD disk, set up recording parameters, and press the record button, I get a "recording prohibited" error message and no recording is made.
Same error messages when I ran through the first 30 cable channels and on a half-dozen programs recorded on the DVR.