Connecting a VCR Player to a Home Theater

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Hello, Reggie Hayes here with Expert Village. Now let's talk about connecting a VCR. Now we've got here a basic VCR, they're pretty ancient these days but they are still around, a lot of home movies are still on VHS, so it's worth talking about here. You've got a couple different connectors. VCR's can serve two purposes. They're either going to send audio and video out, or they are going to receive audio and video, such as recording to a tape, recording your favorite TV shows. Now, the cool thing is they're all labeled, and they're all color-coded. And we have our patch cables here, we learned about connectors earlier, and right here it says "out", and it's got a row, "video", right here, (I'll turn it so you can see it here), "audio" left and right. Now, so we just match our colors right here, yellow, red, and white. Now we're in the "out" feature. We're going out from the VCR to the TV, but we're using our stereo receiver to handle all of our audio and video. Now, here's one thing that's worth noting about this particular stereo receiver, and guys this is why it's important to watch all these segments so you catch things like this, this particular stereo can only accept "S" video, or it can only accept composite, but it cannot do both. So you have to decide. If you hook up everything by "S" video, you have to keep everything that goes into it "S" video, you can't go backwards, such as going composite, because composite is lower than "S" video. So you can have this little adapter right here and this connects your video right here and converts it over to "S" video for you. It's a pretty handy little deal to have, you can find it pretty much anywhere. So we go into our stereo right here where it says "VCR", right here, "VCR In". And then we've got our audio left over and our audios come in right here. So, it's labeled for us once again, into the VCR, so we'll go "Audio In". And if you want to record your shows, you do the same thing, it says "VCR Out", go back to your VCR audio and you'll come up here with it. That's it for hooking up your basic VCR.

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