VCR/DVD Combo screwup

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

I bought a DVD/VCR in one unit. I couldn't figure how to set it up. Those RCA connections confuse me. I hired my live-in 14 year old to hook it up; took her 10 minutes.

The DVD works great, however, when I tried to watch Godzilla on a tape, I had a great picture but no sound. I tried several other tapes with same result, no sound.

Why would the DVD player have sound but not the VCR?

signed....Confused Wolf

[speedvogel (imported)]

Go in to your setup menu and see if there is something that needs to be changed. Beyond that, I suspect a defective unit. I have been told that most of these are made by one company, Funai, and they are quite good about warranty work.

Speed

[Paolo]

Both should play with no work on your part; 1 cable for sound. It's defective. Take it back.

[StefanIsMe (imported)]

Mac:

If you hooked it up with the RCA connections, the lack of audio is probably due to the wire hookup.

The RCA jack with the YELLOW color is your sound hook-up.

Make sure that one is going to your audio playback (either the yellow receiver-hole on your TV, or your "audio line in" on your stereo.

Hope this helps!

[Paolo]

Every dual deck unit I've seen has only 1 set of audio outputs - the red and white cables. yellow is for video - for both decks. If one deck plays and not the other, the unit is defective.

The only other possibility is that the tape's audio has gone bad. If another tape plays fine, then it is the tape and not the deck. If no tapes produce sound, the deck itself is bad.

[curious_guy (imported)]

I am conviced that mechanical, electric, electronic and software devices malfunction on purpose just to annoy the person trying to use them.

[StefanIsMe (imported)]

Well, freakin' duh.... Paolo's right. I don't know what the heck I was thinking. Soon as I read what he put, I looked in the living room and bingo.

Sure sounds like the sound pickup head on the VCR is the problem, in which case I guess you are sending that sucker back.

Too bad.

Curious Guy, you are pretty much right, except I think they only fail for us plebians; they work just fine in the hands of a repair guru

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Warranty expired but new ones aren't too expensive

[Visionary (imported)]

The VCR/DVD combos have all kinds of problems. I work at a Sears store and see them returned constantly for audio/video issues. The most common defect is the audio on the VHS side of the unit.