How Do I Link My Sony Vcr And Samsung Flat Screen Successfully

[HAMMEROFTHOR]

Can anyone give me some advice? I have a Samsung flat screen telly, and a sony vcr...since the tv digital changeover/national re-tune, I can't use the vcr.
I have tried auto tuning the vcr, but it just states 'no tv channels available'....
maybe I have missed an important step in procedure or something- so if anyone has advice as to how to get the thing working, it would be most welcome! Thanks!

[redman41]

I think it's time for an upgrade !
No Analogue TV Signals any more so it's best you get yourself a DVD Recorder and connect that to your TV instead

[bhg481]

Your VCR is clearly an old one with an analogue tuner. At the switchover all the analogue channels were scrapped, hence the message "no TV channels available".
The VCR is now useless for recording but you can still use it to play back any recordings you still have on it, providing that you use a SCART lead ie, you can't tune your TV to the recorder as channel 0 as you were able to do with your old TV. You have to use SCART and point the TV at one of your AV inputs.

[HAMMEROFTHOR]

Hi redman41 and bhg481- I boobed on the description- it IS a dvd player! Sorry for the wrong info, I'm 67 and a bit slow on this (lol)... its a sony digital dvd player unit... any ideas how I can do this- bhg481 you said use scart and point the tv at one of the av inputs - is this what i do now?

[bhg481]

Hammer - I'm 68, so stop hiding behing your age.

Seriously, connect your TV to the DVD player with a SCART lead - if you're not sure what it looks loke, put SCART into Amazon.
The sockets on the back of your TV will be labelled AV1, AV2 etc. You'll have a button on your TV remote labelled "AV", or something like that and you can use that to get the TV to point at the DVD player. That should enable you to play your DVDs.
Depending on its age, your DVD player might have an HDMI socket on it (your new TV certainly will). If so you can use that with an HDMI lead (Amazon again).

[HAMMEROFTHOR]

Thanks very much for your info and help bhg481, I shall take your advice.

[Tuvok]

Do you mean that you have a dvd recorder or a dvd player?

If its a recorder, you can still use it.

eg.
In example below I've said sky, but it could be a Freeview box.

sky box to dvd recorder

sky box to tv (depending on model you may also need to connect dvd recorder to tv)

Connections should be by scart cable (or hdmi if capability exists)

Dvd recorder needs to set to the av channel that the sky box is connected to. TV needs to be set to av channel that sky box is set to.

If you post your model numbers people can look up the manuals and give exact instructions.

[bhg481]

I didn't think of a freeview box, Tuvok.You're right, of course, he can still record that way but it's a bit of a faff to set a recording up, enen if the freeview box is programmable.
It sounds like it's just a player anyway.