- 1). Use an RCA audio/video cable, which uses yellow, white and red plugs on both ends to connect a VCR to a DVD recorder. Match the color-coded plugs on the cable to the color-coded output jacks on the VCR and to the color-coded input jacks on the DVD recorder. The red and white lines will carry the left and right audio signals, and the yellow carries the video signal. On some VCRs you may be able to use an S-video cable with red/white RCA audio cables, but the RCA cable is the most common.
- 2). Connect a DVD player's output to the DVD recorder's input using the best cable option. Your choices are wider in this case, including RCA audio/video cables,, S-video, component (which uses red, green and blue video cables with red/white audio ones) and the high-quality HDMI.
- 3). Link the DVD recorder's output to the input of a TV set. This way you can use the same cable connection you used for the player and recorder for a consistent picture, and both the player and recorder will appear on the TV.
- 4). Turn on the TV set and make sure you tune its input channel for the cable connection you used to connect it to the recorder. From top to bottom, the channels are usually listed as: RF coaxial (which you won't use), composite, S-video, component and HDMI.
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