Using a VCR to record Digital TV
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- since analogue tv broadcasts have been shut down some people think that you can no longer use VCR's to record tv because they were made for analogue tv. Thus is not the case, because I have found a way with the help of a Digital Set-Top box to continue recording tv shows/ movies on VHS and today I will show you how. :) ;)
Hi, not even sure if you are active on this channel anymore. But I wanted to let you know that because of this video, I was able to help a senior record on vhs again. He is very rigid due to many needs and limitations, and the only thing he ever thought he was good at was recording his tv with his vcr. Since the digital TV transition about 14 years ago, he hasn't been able to record. Other workers tried to get him onto DVDs or even cable DVR, but he could never learn them and they weren't his VHS tapes. It was literally all he talked to me about the past three years I've worked with him and I'm a social worker, not a tech person, so it took me this long to stumble upon this you tube. And today, for the first time in 14 years, this man can record VHS tapes again. So, sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart.You helped someone who needed it to be happy again 🙌🙏
orangefaux Hi thank you for the comment means a lot to me that this video still helps people like you out and makes them smile even tho it was uploaded 3 years ago. Personally I’ve always had a massive interest in the modern history ever since I was a kid (nowadays it’s more popular culture from the 60s till now). Unfortunately the RUclips hobby was more a fad being that it was a very fun back in the day but just doesn’t seem to interested me anymore and I’ve since moved on the other things . But hey never say never 😉
It’s cool young people like this dude still appreciate old technology. Thank you, sir.
This kid went all out for this one. CRT t.v., mullet, plad shirt. Straight 90's
😂 A true OG
you look straight out of the 80's I instantly like you.
there is something comforting about the plunk of the tape and the whirring of the vcr heads
That haircut makes you look like you just have time traveled from the 1980s
He's learning you about VHS technology
You knew what this was
this is so cool haha
it adds so much to the video
Back to the future
I had hair that long in the late seventies and early eighties. I still have it but it's now short and white.
Thanks for the info. Very helpful. I grew up in the 80's when VCR was all the rage. Now currently trying to bring some of my dad's electronics back to life.
Wonderful video! So easy to understand. Thank you so much. I am a 42 year old mom trying to figure this out for my autistic 10 year old who loves all things vhs. He usually just points his vhs camcorder towards the tv to record new movies but I was hoping to find a better way.
YOU ARE A LIFESAVER!!!!! I HAD FORGOTTEN HOW TO HOOK THIS UP. I WAS ABOUT TO GIVE UP ON THIS. UNTIL I FOUND YOUR VIDEO!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
VHS is the greatest
yeah so much hours of tv to watch or just record your consoles gameplay
That was not only really clever-but well and truly entertaining and educational-you rock,buddy!xxx
I have been trying to do this for sometime. Watched many youtubes, until I found you. Yours worked. Happy dance!!!!
Keep using your vcr VHS videorecorders and blank VHS tapes to get even with the news media
How are you getting even with news station?
Can'tsay I learned anything new from this, but I love the way you explain things and your love for physical media, so sub.
VHS AND CASSETTE TAPES! WoO!
Got a ps3 or xbox 360? Most of us do. Just connect the video cables to a VCR and hit record when you watch netflix or insert a dvd.
Crap loads of bands are also releasing Cassette's this year.
Cassette's in my 2006 Mustang sound amazing.
Haha Us Millennials' and younger generations are keeping it alive.
I didnt know bands who make music can make VHS's!
Good to see someone young still using and liking physical media and not just streaming.
Thanks for helping yet another senior, to record old episodes of xxx??? to a VHS tape! I have boxes and boxes of used VHS tapes, and this is much cheaper than buying each set or episode!
Retrowave and The Regular Show. Awesome vid! I use my CRT for retro gaming but my vcr is hooked up to my 4k tv just fine.
This is a really good video, very detailed and well delivered. I have an old combined vhs/dvd recorder which I used to convert some old VHS tapes, but it would be fun to be able to record from the TV to VHS again.
This is awesome! a CRT tv, rabbit ears antenna and a VCR. All you need is some tin foil on the antenna.
ACTUALLY, I want to record a show from my digital OTA antenna and DVRs are stupid expensive so this is my alternative but I didn’t think about a VCR not recognizing the broadcast signal anymore.
Well done, thanks!!
I still love VCRs, glad I found this video, thus i shall save it for future use, you have gained a like and a subcribe 😊
Yeah the vibe here is immaculate I got an n64/vcr crt setup in the garage and I been wanting to record gameplay to analog and I remember it worked exactly like this so that’s a bet
Also brooooooooo come backkkkk you ain’t gotta do tutorials you just got the vibe down I’d be down to see you do 80s ass vids
Great mullet hair, you must be a time traveler as well. I love my old Hitachi VCR, now to grab free tv w an amplified terrestrial antenna
I love this kid!!!! I get what he is trying to say at the very end, where he says: “It’s very satisfying to use old VCRs.” I can’t explain what he feels, but I can somehow relate to him, because I used to abuse the heck out of music cassette decks, and VCRs, way back in the day, when I used to record stuff from radio and TV. Hell yea it’s satisfying!!!!
I agree. I just bought a VCR and a tape deck is on the horizon. Mix tapes and tv shows that you can fast forward through the commercials!! I just wish the VHS tapes weren’t stupid expensive now
Great tutorial, man! You're really rockin' that 80's mullet (if I'm using the correct name of that hairstyle). May I ask how you got your hair like that? I'm thinking about doing the exact same sometime!
Thanks. I'll try this at my mother's house. She's in her 70s and wants to stick to this technology because she already knows how to use it.
I like this very much. Very ingenious. I must try this out. Thank you very much.
Excellent video, dude. Does this not work via scart to scart on the set top box TO the VCR? As I have seen, some set top boxes, maybe newer ones, don't seem to have all the AV in/out points? Maybe it's me, but wondered if the scarts double for the AV cables?
Very good brings back memories. VHS is inferior to modern recording methods. But, it is easy to do with no software involved. What I want to use my old VCR is to record stream by using a HDMI Splitter to HDMI convertor to RCA then to VCR . Many programs are copy protected but what I want is not. Just for fun to see if it will work.
I just loved your video, great ! Thx!
I'm gonna do this with Captain Marvel so I can watch it with the 90s feel to it
Hello pal not sure if you are still active on RUclips but I just picked up a VHS and was looking for cool things to do with them and stumbled across this awesome video
From the bottom of my vhs heart, thank you!
Thank you for your cool VHS video you are a cool guy spread the message about VHS
THANK YOU SO MUCH, IT FINALLY WORKED, I KEPT ON HETTING THE INPUTS WRONG
you are my favourite youtuber!
I am now very interested to know how this could be one, if at all, on an HD TV with HDMI. If the RCA was converted to HDMI with a converter box, would the effect be the same?
Also, does the time shifting feature still work on the VCR? One of the most useful features on some higher-end models was the ability to set recording times while out of the house, or even being able to record different channels in sequence through the built-in tuner.
"Bro, record this episode today, I'll watch this later when I get home from work"
exactly my situation down to the sh** antenna, great presentation, worked perfectly...thank you very much!
Man I remember using blank tapes to record a show or movie my parents wouldn’t let me stay up late to watch and hope that it actually recorded the next day. Then DVR came but went just as quickly when you have streaming services 24/7.
Worked perfectly thanks so much 👍
This is a great video. Thanks!
I was thinking you soldered in a digital tuner to the VCR main board or something, I already knew about a converter box. Nevertheless, I’m subscribing because you’ve inspired me to grow my hair like that, a choice I will surely regret after my senior photo next year but oh well
I've actually got my VCR connected to the cable box via an RF cable, and there are no issues with it on my end. I've done this with various VCRs, including a Panasonic, JVC S-VHS, and Sony.
Do you take the output from your box and put it in the input of your VCR?? If so does that convert the signal to analog?? And if so are you able to then record digitally broadcasted shows to your VCR??
I love your videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for making this easier for me!
Awesome thanks for your help 🙋🏽♂️
THANK YOU LIL HOMIE.
Wow IT works! You can hook it up even to Other systems like DVD..
Thanks sir
Hey chum, this was awesome, considering no-one else seems to have posted this on the internet or is a little confusing - one question, this would be ok with set-top boxes "of old" WITH RCA/Audio-Video jacks, but the new ones don't have RCA/Audio-video jacks at the back anymore - is there a way with just the "scarts" they now have, you can replicate and record what you taught us? Thanks ;o)
i just got a hdmi to av adapter unpluged the hdmi cord going into my tv from the cable box, and plugged it into the adapter. Then got av cables and plugged them into the front of my vcr. (also plugged the micro usb cable into the adapter so i can power on)
And i recorded a icarly marathon on vhs!
I do the EXACT same thing with a DVD recorder (circa 2007 )which they don't make anymore- had to buy it used on eBay. If you're lucky, you can find one with a built in digital tuner, that WOULD let you program/schedule recordings to different channels. With these methods you can record up to 480p (which is not bad), and then use free windows compatible software (HandBrake is good one) to "rip"/convert the recording to MP4 format to play on an tablet or smart phone, if you are so inclined. BTW, I do have a VCR I bought for $5 at a thrift store, that I want to try this with just for S&G's.
I've converted a lot of music videos and other hard-to-find material from Laserdisc using one of those DVD recorders from Panasonic. It makes a 704 by 480 DVD which can be "ripped" using Handbrake and converted to MPEG4 H.264 with the proper pixel ratio set so it is 704 by 480 in 4 by 3 or 16 by 9.
Thanks man I have one VHS but forgot how to record digital tv lmao 😆
I love you for this. It worked! I stay away from flat screens for lengthy viewing-like an hour or more- because high blue light emissions cause retinal damage. You would be perfect for a part on 'stranger things' btw.
Lmfao.
@EightiesForReals
Hi, your video is extremely thorough and informative. Well done, keep up the good work! My video recorder doesn't seem to have an AV channel input from what I can see so I can't pick up the digital signals coming from the set-top-box. How do I resolve this?? Thanks heaps for your help in advance. Cheers! 😉
Not all VCR's have the input AV. It should simply be called INPUT 1 and or INPUT 2. You can plug your digital set top box into either of those and they should work.
this guys amazing
5:43 I know you are not going to need the right audio for the TV, but you can at lease record everything in stereo on tape if you connect the right audio to the VCR. Maybe someday you would want to watch the things that you have recorded in stereo on a different TV that would have a red RCA input.
I just did something similar to record my favorite 80's horror movies onto vhs in widescreen so that I can enjoy them on vhs format on my modern hd television.
Please tell me how do do this with modern TV
@@SuperRussian16 its pretty easy. But it would depend on which equipment you have. There's always a way
Is there a way to record television shows onto a VHS tape, without having to have an actual antenna?
For example, if I were to purchase "Free Clear TV" a simple coaxial stub screw in, do you think that would be enough of a connection to record a show onto a VHS tape?
I've never seen a six head VCR. All the ones I've seen were two or four head. I found a four head one at a flea market and it is the one that I am hoping to get as long as it's the one that has the remote with it and allows for setting of the clock and such.
If anyone's wondering whether there are VCRs with a digital tuner after watching this video, there are! One such model is the Panasonic DMR-EZ48V. They're not as common as your standard VCRs, but they do exist. Beware though, they'll probably run you a couple hundred dollars on eBay. I suggest looking out for em at your local flea market or thrift store.
@Tool Time I actually haven't had a problem with this VCR, and I've been using it for at least a year. Recently, I put a dirty copy of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in (MY BAD! Shoulda cleaned the tape), which caused it to cease up and squeak a bit. Grabbed some alcohol and cleaned the tape path and heads, and it's totally fine.
Will the digital tuner vcr record without a converter?
@@jonstripling1315 That's exactly what I'm wondering.
So does the digital tuner translate into recording on a VHS?? That's crazy that it actually has a digital tuner on a VCR, never even knew that was a thing. But can you actually record that digital signal onto an analog tape??
If i have a vcr with a Antenna in input and a analogue tv with a Antenna input can I take a coax cable and connect it to the vcr antenna port and then to the tv antenna port an watch cable that way? I've asked this question on another channel an he said yes. But I'm on my way to get a vcr and I need to know
Very very very good.Tanx a lot.
Can I record from the TV whilst watching another channel like I used to with my old Panasonic VCR Recorder by setting it to record at a specific time, or can you only record a channel you are watching ?
I use my vcr to record stuff off my roku. Quality is very good. Vcr's are still a very handy technology to use.
so its the same procedure!? minus the radioshack black box yeah? i want to record a 1hour plus concert from utube(here lol) that keeps getting copyrighted & taken down. i neeed it so bad😫hope it works
@@tiredasssleepyhead If you want to get RUclips videos you can also use the app "TubeMate". Great app downloads all the videos you want.
Company's start making blank VHS tapes again just like when they started vinal records again
Vinyl never stopped.
I have that Panasonic CRT tv! Best out. Good one 😃
What would happen if you record off the air without the digital tune to analog out then connect that VCR to a digital TV... would you get the channels that that 1 channel has the frequency band in analog with others in binary
Theoretically, can you stream RUclips to your TV (with a Roku or similar device) and record it onto a tape with this method?
This was great ! One question- How do I record videos on my laptop/imac on to a VHS tape?
I use a media streamer hooked up to my vcr to do it. Personally, I use my tivo and pytivo server software. But there's multiple ways to achieve the same thing.
you need a HDMI to av converter they can be found cheap on sites like Ebay
Here you have a tutorial on how to do: ruclips.net/video/T8C9ndmQMQ8/видео.html
I had a small flat screen TV, do I still need that digital box? And would the vcr record off of that?
you can't record off a tv
Good video!
I figured out how to do this recently thanks in part to an antenna installer that I had put an antenna in my attic recently. I had been using crappy indoor antennas for about a year after ending my satellite subsctiption and could not figure out any way to record onto my VCR with them. Well when I decided to upgrade to a nicer outdoor/attic antenna I decided to ask the installer if there was a way I could still record onto my VCR with the antenna and he told me all I needed was a digital converter box. I got one and am able to record again using this set-up. I don't do it a lot but I do like having the option to do so and I missed it. I am worried about the new 3.0 digital OTA TV signal coming in the next few years that once it is in place I once again won't be able to use my VCR to record but I will do it as long as I can.
Nope, that should be a problem. All antenna signals these days are digital anyway and that's exactly what your digital set top box is for.
Thanks. Helped me out
I do this sometimes but of course the quality is not the same but it does work.
I'm going to need to probably do this or similar being that my 24-yr. old Panasonic CRT is no longer working well. For the past several years, we've been using an analog-to-digital (called "digital stream") converter box ever since the signals coming through our antenna changed to digita). We don't have cable but rather use an antenna.
Here's the current set up with the Panasonic: Antenna comes in to the digital stream box (antenna in jack). Then, the “antenna out” jack goes over to the VCR (“RF in”) jack. Then, from the VCR (“RF out” jack, it goes over to the Panasonic. Also coming out of the Digital Stream box are the 3 red-white-yellow cables. They go to the audio/video input (lower row) on the VCR. Red and white (audio out) then goes to my stereo receiver.
With the above set-up, we've been able to record to our VCR. However (and here's why I'm confused), I have not been able to record into a VCR using a 6-yr. old Vizio (HDTV) that we have in another room. What happens is that when I turn on the VCR the picture simply freezes. Hard to explain but with the VCR on it simply won't access the program. I assume that the reason we CAN still record to VCR with the old Panasonic is because of the digital converter box - assuming it's behaving the same as the "set top box" you describe? Once we replace the CRT and get a new TV (in the next few days)..I'm assuming we'll no longer need the digital converter box (?) OR can that box essentially continue to serve as a set top box?
What we'd like to do is to be able to continue to record to VCR in both rooms. The Vizio does NOT have any sort of extra box. It's simply the RF antenna coming in to the VCR and then out to the TV. I'm glad I came across your video.
Any further advice please let me know. Thanks!
Forget the stupid haircut comments, this was very well - explained, THANKS ( and a needed video, nobody on utube is doing it, and you deserve credit for how well and clearly you explained things. )
Thank you SO much for this video. I have an old (2006) Sony DVD/VCR combo unit, which plays pre-recorded VHS tapes fine, but I could not figure out, why it would not record VHS tapes. Now I understand. Your explanation is very clear ... maybe a bit repetitive, but that is OK, because this topic is a bit complicated, so it is good to re-state the information in a slightly different way. One factual point ... in the USA, the switch from analog to digital was made in 2009, not 2013 ... maybe you are referring to another country? Anyway, excellent explanation ... you should consider becoming a teacher, if you are not already.
thank you means a lot but yes I live in Australia and the switch over was in December 2013
So technically the switch from analog to digital in the US was in 2009, but it wasn't enforced until about 2022. What it listed was that all television companies by the year 2022 had to get rid of their analog transmitters. So naturally many companies didn't switch over right away. I had charter at the time and they didn't switch over until 2014 so up until that point I was using my VCR to record.
Forgot to ask...why aren't you using the red (audio) cable, but rather just composite video and one audio channel? That won't work for me cause then I won't have a stereo signal. Shouldn't there be white-yellow-red coming out of the box into the VCR, and likewise all three coming back out the VCR and into the TV?
One more question - what happens with the antenna once it's plugged into the box? Doesn't it have to come back out to send the signal to the VCR and then eventually to the TV? I don't recall you referring to any additional antenna connections...? I can't imagine that the video cable alone from the box to the VCR supplies the digital TV channels?
To answer your first question, his TV is a mono TV, so he doesn't have the stereo option on the back, so he can't use the stereo on the digital set top box and VCR and then just plug in the two to his TV, that would mess the audio up. To answer your second question, plugging your antenna to the digital set top box is all you need to do. Once you connect the antenna to the set top box, the signal will be there, and by taking the RCA outputs from the box to the VCR, the signal will then be carried to the VCR's INPUT 1, naturally the VCR's output will carry that signal to the TV, and there you go. So the RCA from the box going to the VCR IS the connection that sends the signal of the antenna to the VCR if you didn't understand that.
How does this handle 16:9 content? It just crops it at the sides?
anamorphic squeeze 16:9 content to 4:3
Can you use an old model Roku as the digital source instead of an antenna?
I think Walmart in America still sells antenna cables, also called coaxial cables. Of course I could be wrong.
can you convert a old VCR into a rf modulator for your old analog TV
Good Job Kid it works!
How can I record without a antenna and is the cable box the same thing as the cable dish and I have a antenna cord
Cheers! Really helped
Hey there - what channel should my VCR be tuned - to enable me to record a normal channel? thank you - bloody hopeless cheers from Wendy in Isolation
By the time digital came around TV's and VCR's used SCART. And I remember the days when a TV had an ariel out socket. You'd plug an ariel cable from the TV to the VCR Meaning you still used the TV remote to change channels etc. Iftact I don't think I knew VCR's haha built in tuner until this moment.
Nice demo My old vcr does not have a/v inputs only a/v outputs how would i work around that, if i can?
Not sure if you can unless you have a ATSC modulator which would convert the RCA to a RF signal. You might be able to do it that way. Assuming your VCR had a tuner which pretty much all VCR's did.
I have a problem with my vcr i have two scart inputs in the back and audio output and input and when I connect all this I have an image but I have no sound what to do?
Where is the first cable coming from, the wall antenna?
i have a hdmi to rca it shows up on the tv going through the vcr but when i play the video i recorded its black
The strange thing is no matter how I set it up it wont record the video! It will record audio with a blue screen. Do they scramble broadcast stations or stations with a dash in them now?
Are you able to record one program and watch diferent?
Do you know how to connect TELECAPTION 4000 CLOSED CAPTION DECODER to a VCR? Thanks!
AWESOME
What's the model of the VCR?
I feel like I'm back in the 90s this is how we recorded our shows
What if I want to use a security camera and record to vh s on vc r with a converto r box
Thank you!!