Please Help Me Set Up My Tv!!

[Scarlett]

Okay! So I have a TV, VHS and DVD recorder all plugged in. I have had really awful pixellated reception so I did some tests, and found that if the aerial is plugged into the TV, reception is okay. If it is plugged into the VHS, it goes pixellated and loses reception altogether. This is a new development- for years it was fine. How can I try to get it all tuned in and working again? I moved the VHS machine slightly further away from the TV and the pixels went away, but I had no ITV or Ch4, or anything other than BBC1 and 2. Any ideas?!

[Buenchico]

To the best of my knowledge, no VHS recorders were ever manufactured with digital tuners inside them. So the ability to make off-air recordings on a VHS machine was lost as soon as the digital switchover occurred. (You can still replay recordings made before that date, as well as commercial VHS tapes, but you can't make off-air recordings).

So there would seem to be absolutely no point in having the aerial feed into the VHS recorder; it's not doing anything! Plug it directly into your telly (or your DVD recorder).

If you need further advice, please tell us how many Scart sockets your TV has (and also whether your TV and DVD recorder both have HDMI sockets).

[Old_Geezer]

Also, moving things changes things. Sounds like a cable connection issue. Out if curiosity you could check the plugs are in properly or try a different cable.

[ivor4781]

you dont need your vhs plugged in with anything but your scart socket as Buenchico said you can make any recordings on it,so just plug the aerial direct into the tv. there has been no analog signal for around 10 years vhs recorders use analog

[ivor4781]

(sorry)...cant make recordings not can make

[Scarlett]

I actually use my set up to transfer VHS tapes to DVD and then to PC. I'm sure there is an easier way of doing this now; I don't really ever record anything off the TV. I sometimes plug a camcorder directly into the DVD recorder, and burn a DVD from there. More often than not, I plug the camcorder into my PC and edit using Premiere. I think that's why my VHS had the TV aerial in it.

[ivor4781]

use dont use an aerial to transfer anything its either by scart hdmi or other variables

[Old_Geezer]

Is it not possible to connect the tape to the dvd player directly ?
I've never tried but it seems the obvious connection to me.