VHS Static causing TV to say "No Signal"?

Question

I recently hooked up my Toshiba SDV32KKC VCR to my new Flat Panel Toshiba 22AV500U TV. It played some parts fine, but any static or tracking lines on a tape causes the TV to disregard the entire signal and gives a "No video signal" message. I know it's not the VCR, as when I connected it to an older TV it just showed the static and tracking lines. How can I stop the TV from doing this?

I also noticed that the TV does not censor static through the antenna input, but I cannot figure out how to make it play tapes through that input, it only lets the signal pass through. Is there any manual availible for this machine?

Answer 1

Since VCRs only recorded at the old 4:3 ratio, the logical thing would be to keep an old tube TV and use that to view the VCR content. Connecting a VCR to a hidef TV is, well, absurd.

Answer 2

The problem is your VCR is an obsolete device that produces a non-standard 280 lines of video.



Frankly it's a miracle you get any video at all. Most TV makers would not include hardware & software to understand this obsolete format.



The software inside the TV has to try to 'understand' the video to convert it to digital. Static messes up the software trying to decide where the beginning & end of each video frame exists so it cannot do its job.



There is nothing you can really do about it except to get rid of the VCR.

Answer 3

Connect the VCR's video and audio outputs to the TV's Composite input

and select that input with the TV's remote.



If that doesn't work, get in-person assistance from a local expert.