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Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 9:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dra, isn't it true that the TV doesn't even need to be involved in the mix?

With my experience, I had to use both a coax cable AND an RCA(red-yellow-white) cable to get the digital box's signal to be acknowledged by my VCR (and my DVD-HD).

Make sure the cables leaving the DVR are going into the correct VCR inputs, and like Dra says, make sure you are selecting the correct "input source" on your VCR.

Another long shot possibility if you've tried all the suggestions and it's still not working is something I've learned about my digital cable box: some shows can be sent out with a signal that works on the box, but DOES NOT work for reproduction. I tried to tape a Pay-per-view movie a few weeks ago, and the playback signal is pure black from the moment the movie started to the very end. I got the "Your show is about to begin" and the "Thank you for using PPV" messages before and after the movie, but the movie was copyright protected. Apparently, some TV shows are jumping on the copyright bandwagon, and newer technology recorders may not "reproduce" copies of the show, but will only be able to be viewed on the HD it was recorded on.

Gigglesalot
Member

08-14-2003

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks so much Draheid and Eeyoreslament - when I get home I will try what you have prescribed. Basically, I do know now that I will have to switch out the dvd/vcr player with the dvd player next to the satellite receiver so that I can connect the dvr to the dvd/vcr. Having the tv (in the 2nd bedroom) not physically connected to the receiver is what is problem, I'm sure. Thanks for helping me out. I feel like a 'doh' will be forthcoming very shortly from me.

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gigglesalot: I think you can make it work with the TV in the 2nd room by doing what draHeiD said. Let me restate it in my words and see if I am saying the same thing:
  • Move the cable that is currently going into the 2nd TV to the input of your DVD/VCR combo.
  • Connect the output of your DVD/VCR combo to the input of your 2nd TV.
  • The DVD/VCR combo should be on channel 60 to tune the signal from where ever it is coming from.
  • The TV should probably now be on channel 3 to tune the output of the DVD/VRC combo.
Try that and let us know if it works.


Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 12:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i have mine set up the way dra describes and it works perfectly. from the dvr to the input of the vcr. from the output of the vcr to the input of the tv. very easy.

Gigglesalot
Member

08-14-2003

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 6:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay - I've connected the satellite cable to the VCR. I connected a cable from the VCR output to the TV input. If I have the TV on channel 3 and the VCR on channel 60 I still cannot watch the TV. I have to have the VCR off or at least the TV turned to channel 60 and the VCR/TV button turned off on the VCR. Basically I cannot get the TV "tuned" into the VCR. Am I again missing a basic step? I'm usually fairly okay at setting things like this up - I don't know what's wrong with me.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gigglesalot: If you have the satellite running into the VCR and the VCR into the TV, you will not be able to watch anything other than the program you are recording until it is over. That's unfortunately how satellite usually works in this type of setup. With things hooked up this way, you should be able to see and record the program from the DVR/Satellite onto the VCR as you see it on the TV. Once your finished transferring the program, then you can hook everything back as it was and resume normal viewing then.

Gigglesalot
Member

08-14-2003

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 6:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I hit ‘record’ while watching TV, then set the TV and VCR to view the VCR, but when I watched the tape, the program that I watching was not recorded.

It’s so frustrating and I so want to give up on this! But, it’s not in my nature to quit – so I’ll keep trying.

Thank you Draheid, Bob2112, Eeyoreslament and Landi for helping!



Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 6:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gigglesalot: I think you may have something reversed here. You should select TV/VCR to view the VCR before hitting 'record'. Once you are viewing the VCR, whatever you see on the TV is what should be recorded then. So select the VCR on your TV, prepare the program to be recorded on your DVR (locate the show on your recorded playlist), start the VCR recording, then start the DVR playing the show. That should then record the show just as you are seeing it on the TV through the VCR.

Keep plugging - if we can help, just let us know.

Gigglesalot
Member

08-14-2003

Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Draheid - I will of course go back to this when I get home tonight. Thank you for your kindness and help. I'll see what I may have crossed-up.

Thanks again!


Citruscitygal
Member

08-07-2003

Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 12:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Can someone remind me how to copy and save a whole thread?

Many thanks.

Luvmom
Member

10-17-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 6:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi there,
Don't know if this is the right thread to ask this but,
How do you change your e-mail address in your profile on this web site.
I went into my profile and I could change alot of things but I can't change my e-mail address.

Moderator
Moderator

06-30-2002

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 6:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Luvmom: You have three options:
1) E-mail your request from the old e-mail address to moderator@tvclubhouse.com

2) Post the request on the board, preferably in the Questions to Moderators thread.

3) Click on the username 'Moderator' here and send a Private Message to the moderator with the information including your username, old e-mail, and new e-mail address request.

Mod (22)

Luvmom
Member

10-17-2000

Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 7:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks,I'll do that.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 6:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK so everyone knows I got this new laptop - Toshiba Satellite M40. Anyways, I have a question about the touchpad. I can't figure it out, as it does some random things. It has this feature I DO know about where you can touche the corners for a certain period of time, and it will open programs or folders that you have chosen. But I'm not talking about that.

Sometimes, while I am surfing, I will be hovering over the touchpad, and if my cursor os over a LINK, and I touch the touchpad, it will click on that link, and I'm not talking about touching the two buttons BELOW the touchpad, I'm talking when I touch the touchpad. I try to replicate what I just did, and it doesn't do it.

Is this a faulty touchpad, or just a feature I don't know about?

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 7:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My husband's laptop requires a double pat on the touchpad to open things. You can use those buttons on the bottom, too.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 7:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Most touchpads will treat a 'tap' the same as a left-mouse click. If you point to a program on your desktop, two taps and it will open. With links or an active desktop, a single tap is the same as a single click and would activate a link. You should be able to access the software associated with the touchpad to adjust the sensitivity of the pad for taps, and other behavior.

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 7:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There are a few tricks and features to make working with a touchpad easier. It's probably worth taking a look at the set-up and the help file. I hadn't used one before and I was pleasently surprised at some of the ways you can use it.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 7:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
eeyore, you need to learn about the special touchpad features that the toshiba satellite offers. it can do so much!! there is a icon for the touchpad down in the lower right in the system tray. it will help you tons!

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 8:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
COOOOOOOOL!!!

Thank guys! The single tap thing must have been what I was doing!! I tried it like Draheid said, and it worked!! That's such an exciting feature!! I was annoyed with using my finger to move the cursor, then using the same finger to click the left button.

Thanks everyone!!

Landi - I tried using that Touchpad feature configuration, but I don't really like it. Do you use it a lot?

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 7:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not to jump back in here, but one of the neat things you can do with it is set it so that the pointer continues to move in the direction that you are moving it, if you reach one side of the pad and continue to press on it. Another thing you can do is set it to scroll down if you run your finger down the side of it. There's a few more features that you can enable / disable as well.

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 11:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jimmer, I found the Control Panel Settings of it, and TRIED to use those features, but they are of 3 features that I can't quite figure out, and there is a lack of documentation on troubleshooting why they aren't working for me.

With the scroll up and down feature, I get that little "scrollbar" icon under my cursor, but then I can't figure out how to move my finger to make it actually scroll. (I also think it sucks that a person is not allowed to change the "scroll zones" to the LEFT side of their touch pad. I am a leftie.)

As well, I set my "edges" but somehow I haven't yet figured out how to keep scrolling once you hit the end of the touchpad. I have tried it, but haven't had any luck.

Another thing I can't get to work for me it the Touch & Launch program. You can touch a corner of your touch pad for 'X' amount of seconds, and a window will pop up with a program or folder of your choice. Then you can navigate that folder. However, for some reason I cannot SELECT things once that window is on screen. I move my finger to the icon I want to select, and if I lift my finger, the window goes away (no matter how short a time my finger lifts).

Oh and I can't get the "double-click" on the touch pad to work either.

Anyone have any ideas?

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 12:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think that you can change the scroll zones by dragging them around in the settings display?

With respect to continuing scrolling once you hit the edge, you sort of just have to continue pressing down on the touch pad.

I'm not sure about the touch and launch program. I think my set-up just allows you to assign different actions to tapping each corner. For example I have one corner assigned so that if you tap it, my browser goes back one page (very handy).

Let us know if you get it working okay and if not, we'll keep trying!

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 12:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I can change the SIZE of the scroll zones, but not the side that the zones are on.

I like that corner tap feature. I totally agree about the BACK button. That's what I did too.

I think Landi has a Toshiba, maybe she's used the Touch & Launch program.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 12:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
$29.99 wireless mouse. i'm telling ya! took me 1 second to install. and i use it in that little area next to the touchpad.

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Sunday, May 08, 2005 - 12:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow Landi! That is a cool idea using the little wireless mouse in the little area next to the touchpad.

I use a Logitech wireless mouse myself when I'm at my desk. It's the best mouse I've ever used.

I have a Toshiba myself. Are all of your USB ports on the right side of the notebook? I could never figure out what to do with the mouse, so I actually trained myself to use the mouse left-handed (which can be quite handy if you are right-handed and want to write and mouse at the same time!).