|   Question about signal routing - | rpgamer
Oct 21, 2002 11:51 AM | | I just bought a Denon 1602 as well as a 5-speaker setup. I live in a University dorm so we don't have cable boxes - rather we just have a jack in the wall that we get the signal from. Right now - I have the Coaxial cable running from the wall jack to the VCR in port, I then have another coaxial cable in the TV Out from the VCR and plugging that in to the TV. I have the RCA A/V cable running out from the VCR into the receiver. My question is this - is the the video signal being transmitted to the TV via the the coaxial cable or the RCA Video? How about the audio? |
| re: Question about signal routing - | midfiman
Oct 21, 2002 12:16 PM | | No, the video signal is being transmitted to the TV via the coax from the VCR to the TV. There is not connection between the TV and Reciever at this point from what you have described, hence no way for the video signal to go that way.
The audio signal is being transmitted via the RCA cable (red and white, i.e. left and right) from the VCR to the reciever.
You can go a different route if you want. If your TV and VCR have S-Video in/outs, connect an S-Video cable from the OUT on the VCR to the IN on the reciever. Then look for the MONITOR OUT on your reciever, and connect that to the S-Video IN on your TV. That would also work and give you better picture, IMO. |
| S-video will not improve picture if source is composite. | KiD SmokE
Oct 21, 2002 1:14 PM | | If source is composite such as Analog cable, VCR or OTA signals, changing over to S-video will not improve the picture. You can not do better than what the source is feeding you...composite all the way round if source is composite also :) |
| S-video will not improve picture if source is composite. | rpgamer
Oct 21, 2002 6:22 PM | | Coax cable is analog so if I just route it through the VCR and use RCA analog video out to TV from VCR then it'll carry both VCR and TV signal with no (little) quality degradation? |
| That is almost correct. | KiD SmokE
Oct 22, 2002 10:37 AM | | You will definitely get the best picture from VCR (tapes) going with RCA connection. But you also have to realized that VCR by nature will cut signal strength in half when Coax cable is routed thru it (but it probably will not matter if your signal strength is good).
So do a picture comparison between routing Cable thru VCR (RCA output to TV), and running Coax Cable strait to TV to see which connection will give you better picture..of course that is if TV have audio outputs. If TV don't have audio output, then the only way you re going to get audio thru your system would be if you route Coax Cable thru VCR :) |
| You are getting audio/video thru Coax. | KiD SmokE
Oct 21, 2002 1:25 PM | | Since you said that VCR's RCA A/V cable running out from the VCR into the receiver, and only Coax going to TV, then you are getting both A/V from Coax cable via TV's Tuner. You don't need to run Video cable to you receiver to receive audio from VCR.
Or you can route Video (RCA..yellow) from your VCR to TV (VCR's audio to Receiver...Red and white), and just use VCR's Tuner to change channel..you will get picture from TV and audio from your receiver :) |
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