How to Hook Up DVD Satellite TV to a VCR

Watch a DVD through your VCR.

If you do not have a DVR (digital video recorder) you can use a VCR to record the contents from television programing you receive from a satellite receiver. You can also connect a DVD player to your VCR. Although the quality of the DVD diminishes to VCR standard you can also connect the VCR to the DVD if you want to record the contents of a DVD to a VHS tape (if you want to back up a DVD).

Things You'll Need

• Satellite receiver
• VCR
• DVD player
• RCA cable
• TV
• RCA splitter

Instructions

1. Connect a set of RCA cables into the "Video In" port on the back of your television. Plug the other end of the RCA cables into the "Out" port on the VCR.

2. Plug a second set of RCA cables into the "In" port on the VCR and insert the other end into the "Out" port on the RCA splitter. An RCA splitter takes two video signals (in this case the DVD player and the satellite receiver) and converts it into one connection. A switch on the top of the switcher allows you to control what video device passes through to the out port. For example, if the DVD player is connected to side "A" and the satellite receiver to side "B" and the RCA switcher is set to "B" you are going to see the satellite receiver content.

3. Connect a set of RCA cables into each "In" port on the RCA splitter.

4. Plug one free end of RCA cables into the "Out" port on the DVD player. The other free end on the other set of RCA cables inserts into the "Out" port on the satellite receiver.

5. Power on the television and the VCR. Press the "Input" button on the TV, then select "Video" you can now see the contents of the VCR on the TV. Power on either the DVD player or the satellite receiver, then set the switcher to either "A" or "B" to view the desired content through the VCR on the TV.

References

• Sourcing Map: RCA Splitter Information