Help with video from VCR through component cables? (1 Viewer)

[Vic Matthews]

I have a combination DVD/VCR player from Samsung that I am running through my Pioneer A/V Receiver and onto my plasma screen display. I have a component connection and a digital coax audio cable running from the player to the receiver, and then component cables from the receiver to the display. This works great when playing DVD's.

However, when I try to play a video tape, I get no signal, so I ran analog RCA cables from the VCR out to the receiver's analog input, and an analog video cable to the analog video input on the receiver. Now I am getting audio from the VCR, but still no video. Is this because the analog VCR signal can't travel over the component cables from the receiver to the plasma display? Do I need to also run an S-video or analog line to the display in order to view video tapes, or is there another way to transmit the signal through the component cables?

Thanks.

 

[Stephen Hopkins]

Most (if not all) VCR/DVD combos do not pass VHS signal over component video or digital audio. You'll have to use analog audio and video. Most don't pass VHS over svideo either, but i think some do.

 

[Shane Martin]

If your audio receiver does component upconversion then you could feed the video thru your receiver and upconvert from there. You likely won't notice a quality difference but the convienence will outway that I think. You'd still connect the video out of your dvd/vcr combo via analog rca outs to the receiver though while also using the component connection with your dvd player.

Definitely something to consider if you receiver does component upconversion.

 

[Steve*W]

JVC makes a combo unit that does the up-conversion to component as well.