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View VHS tapes on Digital TV

My brother has a number of VHS tapes that he would like to view on his Sony Internet TV (Model NSX-40GT1). He has a Sharp VC-A560 VHS player. Questions:

Is there a way to connect the VHS player to play back on this digital TV? The TV has HDMI and component video input ports as well as a satellite coaxial input, and the VHS player has white/yellow video output and coaxial output ports.

If it is not possible to connect the VHS player to the TV, can people recommend a cheap and reliable VHS to DVD converter that will do the trick?

Many thanks.

ryan_johnston

The TV's coax isn't just satellite only. It's a coax input for anything. You can connect vcr to that input. The VCR should have two coax connections. An input and an output.

Wall----->VCR--->TV. ------> = Coax Cable

Then just put the tv on whatever channel the vcr is set to play on.

xDUCKx

Other post is better

Kurvenal

ASKER

I tried to do that, but when I played back a tape on the VHS and then used the search feature on the tuner to search for channels, it could not find the VHS at all. Not sure why, and not sure what the channel should be.

ryan_johnston

There is usually a little switch on the back of the vcr with only two options (usually 3 and 4).

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pgm554

On the TV itself,the remote should allow you to choose the input which should include composite.

A menu should let you choose between HDMI 1,HDMI 2 ,etc.

Kurvenal

ASKER

Good response, but could still not get it to work.