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Use a cable converter box.2. There are two solutions.1. This is an excellent value. The description neglects to state this model is not cable ready. Purchase a (female) coax to (male) RCA converter for a few dollars.
There is no coax cable hook up, RCA hook up only. After a couple of months the VCR started to eat my tapes when the tape started to rewind. I bought this thinking I would be able to at least record incoming video from cable, nope. At first I thought it was due to the heads being dirty but after the fourth tape was eaten I have come to the conclusion that the VCR has a Gremlin.The DVD player is okay.Perhaps I got a lemon.I suggest that others think of getting a different combo player.
I don't use the VCR all that much, but when I do, it works without a problem.One nice feature is that if you turn off the DVD player in the middle of a movie, and you don't eject the disc, it will remember where you left off. A good remote will have different button shapes that you can feel without looking down at them.
The next time you power on, it will ask whether you want to resume, or start over from the beginning. That's an essential convenience, and unbelievably not not all players will do that.My only complaint is the remote.
After suffering through a couple of really junky DVD/VCR combinations, I have been happy with this Philips model. This one has some essential buttons close together with the same exact shape, which means you have to look down to make sure you're about to press the correct one.As to the reviewers who complain that this unit has no tuner, well, you need to do your research before buying, and now you know.
I've now been using it for nine months and have had no problems at all. It plays DVD flawlessly, even those scratched-up rental discs.
As long as you're using a separate tuner, you should be fine with this model.
The VCR player quit after a very short period of use. Bigger issues. Next, the remote quit working. I bought one of these & I have to say it's really bad. The remote has every button you can imagine but you can never seem to find the one you want because the layout is complicated & not functionally organized. Without that, the DVD functions don't work because there's no manual option. The set-up is complicated. This thing is a piece of junk.
I have mine hooked up to a digital cable tv and I haven't had any problems setting up for a movie as I've had with others in the past. If you still have VHS tapes it's a great way to go. This is a very simple and straight forward player. It's light, basic and full featured. It has wonderful image quality, sound is great, I'd definitely recommend it.
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