How Do You Connect A VCR To A TV To Record 1 Program While Watching Another?
In order to watch one TV program while recording another TV program with your VCR, you either need two digital converter boxes or one digital converter box and a digital-ready TV. You have to have two digital tuners to make this process work. So if you’re hooking up your VCR to an analog TV set, you need to apply the connection configuration that uses two digital converter boxes. If you have a digital-ready TV set (which means the TV is equipped with an internal digital—ATSC—tuner), you only need one digital converter box. Screw the TV antenna’s coaxial cable into the RF In port on your RF splitter. Use one of your coaxial cables to link one of the RF Out ports on your RF splitter to the RF In port on the back of your converter box (converter box 1 if you’re using two converter boxes). Run your other coaxial cable from the remaining RF Out port on your RF splitter to the RF In port on the back of your digital-ready TV or on the back of converter box 2 (if you’re using two converter
