Can this model be hooked up to a old dvd/VCR player? After buying the hdmi cable I see no where to connect it.
917194
It can but not with HDMI but rather A/V or component cables. (The RCA style plugs).
917195
You'll need to look at the outputs on your older box and match up accordingly. My guess is you'll want RCA cables that are the yellow red white ones. I believe on this TV it either has a yellow colored input or is one of the 3 red/green/blue component inputs for the yellow composite video input. If any of this doesn't make sense the terms I used should show up quickly on a Google search. Hope this helps. Also the HDMI won't be applicable to your older VCR. Even if you could use it the video quality sent from the VCR will still be as bad on a flat screen as what you'll get with the rca cables. Summary: look at VCR/DVD back and match accordingly. You'll need to look at the outputs on your older box and match up accordingly. My guess is you'll want RCA cables that are the yellow red white ones. I believe on this TV it either has a yellow colored input or is one of the 3 red/green/blue component inputs for the yellow composite video input. If any of this doesn't make sense the terms I used should show up quickly on a Google search. Hope this helps. Also the HDMI won't be applicable to your older VCR. Even if you could use it the video quality sent from the VCR will still be as bad on a flat screen as what you'll get with... » Read More You'll need to look at the outputs on your older box and match up accordingly. My guess is you'll want RCA cables that are the yellow red white ones. I believe on this TV it either has a yellow colored input or is one of the 3 red/green/blue component inputs for the yellow composite video input. If any of this doesn't make sense the terms I used should show up quickly on a Google search. Hope this helps. Also the HDMI won't be applicable to your older VCR. Even if you could use it the video quality sent from the VCR will still be as bad on a flat screen as what you'll get with the rca cables. Summary: look at VCR/DVD back and match accordingly. « Show Less
917196
Yes. You have to get RCA connectors. (white red yellow ) cables to be able to hook up to the old vcr. Or you could get RGB cables (red green blue cables) if your video player has it.
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You might try it. I don't think that is what it was made for, but it does a good job from an older VCR to the new TV. Good luck.
2098769
If your vcr has rca outputs (red white and yellow) you can use this adapter. If it just has an antenna cable output you need something else
1412794
I've never seen a VCR with an HDMI port... However, tha device simply upscales content. For example, if you had a dvd player with RCA cables (480p), you could plug the dvd player into this device, it would then upscale the signal from the dvd player to 1080p. This is not a means to transfer data like you would with a USB cable - it just up-converts signal.
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Yes, you should be able to use an older VCR, with red, white and yellow male RCA output jacks into this device and connect to a modern HDMI TV via a HDMI male-male cable.
151850
I use an HDMI cord. You might want to look into a convertor box. It took me buying and sending back 7 different DVD player's before I went back to this one. Just a warning This is the 2nd time I bought this DVD player as all the other's didn't have what I wanted or needed.
908850
You can hook it up and get a nice picture if the back of the tv has a coaxial input. This vcr was made before the advent of HD tvs. And, although it has all of the required in and out puts on the back, the picture that you record will not be very clear. I have it hooked up from the cable box (coaxial cable used) to the vcr input. Output is via coaxial cable to the HD TV's coaxial input. No cords were included.
713380
Yes, you can. The connection would be made with RCA cables. However, bear in mind that the quality of the output of a VCR is 240 lines of resolution at best (bare minimum on flatscreen televisions is 480). So if you are burning old VHS tapes to DVD to watch on a flatscreen television, you will definitely see the flaws you normally overlooked on older televisions, such as grainy picture, faded colours and so forth. This is a limitation of the VCR, not a reflection of the Hauppauge device. Still, if you have valuable older tapes, it is worth it.
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I had to connect to my cable box. The home theater system only has the old, three color connector, and my TV only has one of those type inputs, this is a drawback, you cannot connect it using an HDMI cable. I have not actually hooked it up through my dvd player, so I don't know on that one.
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Hi,I assume you are trying to record the VCR to the DVD recorder. There is a yellow (composite) video OUT on the VCR, plug that to the grex IN, then the grex OUT plug into the DVD recorder source IN. Then set your DVD recorder to the source IN you plugged in and record. The DVD recorder HDMI to TV has no purpose in the recording, only for watching the recording so it's fine.
962980
Well the question is, what's an old tv? You need to use an HDMI cable. So if your tv doesn't support HDMI then the answer is no.
2098766
That was exactly my situation. I had a VCR that only output composite video and stereo audio (Y- Video, White and Red - Left and Right Audio). You connect this device to the Y-W-R outputs from the VCR, then connect the HDMI cable between this device and your TV (or AV receiver). It's that simple. To power the device, you must also connect a USB cable to anything in your equipment rack that also has a USB port. Newer TVs and AV receivers have USB ports. You will need a USB cable that is long enough to reach your power source (I had to replace the one they sent me with one of my own) and of course the Y-W-R cable that connects between your VCR and the device, which you should already have assuming the VCR was previously connected to an older piece of equipment. It worked like a charm.
1795353
Unfortunately you can not hook it up to a DVD. You have to use a VCR. I have alot of experience and I could only get it to work with a VCR.
362553
only if older dvd has hdmi out..if it has rca jack output no..what I thought..nope have buy separate converterfrom 30-70$
1541642
No you can NOT. This converts HDMI to AV (yellow video port), not the other way around. They make a separate converter that does AV (yellow, red, and white VCR connections) to HDMI. That's what you would want if you are connecting a VCR to an HDTV. Just make sure it says "AV to HDMI" and not the other way around. This product works very well, I would assume their other converters work just as well.
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when you say cable I'm assuming you mean coaxial cable. You don't hook DVD players up like you do VCR's. Edward Basile pretty much answered this.
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Yes, I have the same problem. I have never used a DVD/VCR that was not cable ready. Had I realized that this model was not cable ready, I would not have purchased it. According to the directions, a modulator is required. I purchased one, and still no picture. The unit is in a closet because I have never been able to use it.