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Need help recoding programs to my VCR

How come every time I try to record a program from my DVR to my VCR I get a black screen, I have the QIP 7200 series DVR

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Keyboards

How are you connected from the DVR to the VCR? You need to connect either the composite (yellow, red, white RCA jacks) or the S-Video (if supported on your VCR) with the red and white RCA for audio with the VCR set for LINE INPUT. You can only record what you are actively watching with your DVR unless your VCR has a QAM tuner and then you could record the channels that are in clear QAM (local SD, local digital/HD, music, and PEG channels - no national channels like USA, ESPN, Sci-Fi, etc.).

KJH278

all I want to is record all of my WWE programs that I have stored on my DVR to to a VCR TAPE

Keyboards

@KJH278 wrote:
all I want to is record all of my WWE programs that I have stored on my DVR to to a VCR TAPE

Using the steup I described in my first reply you should be able to transfer to a VCR without issue. This is how I have mine hooked up and have transferred many recordings with no issues.

KJH278

The cables that you are talking about are they the Yellow,red and white cables that have a plastic head,

CSimpson

This should be totally doable as long as the program you have on your DVR isn't copy protected or something.

If you have your DVR(out) -> (in)VCR(out) -> (in)TV, you should be able to watch live TV if you have your VCR and TV set to the correct inputs. If you can't see live TV, then your connections are not correct.

I've recorded stuff from my DVR and VOD to a DVD-R recorder doing the same thing. HD content will automatically be downconverted to 480i (at least in my experience). I used composite cables (Yellow/Red/White) for all devices.

Keyboards

@CSimpson wrote:
This should be totally doable as long as the program you have on your DVR isn't copy protected or something.

Copy protection for the digital data stored on a DVR does not exist for the low resolution video outputs - there are no Macrovision provisions in the STB and this is all that an analog VCR would recognize. The only copy protection is by way of HDMI handshake (or broadcast flag for the IEEE-1394 / firewire) to prevent digital copying.

Message Edited by Keyboards on 04-23-2009 06:43 PM

HumbleHomeboy

Unplug the HDMI cable if you have HD DVR or you won't get any signal out the composite (Yellow, Red and White) cables.

I was told this by technical support and it worked after an hour of frustration trying everything I could think of. Hope this helps.

Keyboards

@Pstreicher wrote:
Unplug the HDMI cable if you have HD DVR or you won't get any signal out the composite (Yellow, Red and White) cables.
I was told this by technical support and it worked after an hour of frustration trying everything I could think of. Hope this helps.

Absolutely not true!!! I have the HDMI to my TV and the composite to my VCR and both are active (and so would the S-Video be as well). All outputs are active simultaneously. I can view the DVR content (although letterboxed) and record trhough the VCR with no problems

KJH278

Where would I plug in the red,yellow and white plugs when I connect to to my VCR, linein or line out

DzWR

Line in -- think of it as the signal is going INTO your vcr...then OUT of your vcr to the tv. Thats how I always think about that stuff.

KJH278

what about the DVR box where do the plugs go

Keyboards

@KJH278 wrote:
what about the DVR box where do the plugs go

Yellow to VIDEO OUT, Red to AUDIO OUT RIGHT, White to AUDIO OUT LEFT. The inner ring of each jack on the DVR matches the color of the plug (as I said in an earlier post). Try looking in the manual for the DVR - it shows these connections.

If that is too complicated for you maybe you need to call and pay the Geek Squad or someone to do this for you.

KJH278

my dvdr did not come with a yellow cord, it came with 2 white one and a red one and if I take them out I get now sound

KJH278

I hooked up it the the way Keyboards todl me and it did;nt work

Message Edited by KJH278 on 05-01-2009 09:22 PM

KJH278

My friend came over today he got it hooked up and now I am able to record from my DVR to my VCR,I am so happy that he got it hooked up that I;m going to buy him dinner sometime this week

TVee

Can you time-record? or do you have to have your tv(or dvr) set to the station you want to record in real time?

Or are you just copying programming that you have already recorded on your dvr TO your vcr ?

Message Edited by TVee on 05-04-2009 12:12 PM

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