VCR/BNC in Question

[Shootblue]

I am trying to take a cable signal from our cable provider out of a splitter and take that signal into a home VCR, and then take that signal out, use an adaptor, put it to a BNC connector and put it into a basic Ikegami Production Booth monitor. I had assumed that the VCR would have output the channel that I wished to view as a video signal and I could put that into the booth monitor. Apparently I am missing something important, or it isnt possible to do. The goal is to have the competition's air signal in a monitor for ease of viewing for the producer. They dont want to spend money for a real color TV, so I figured this would be a good alternative. Is this possible? (As I am sure with most of us, we could connect an entire TV station up but can't set up a home entertainment system...)

[<let me see>]

Let me see if I understand. You want to take a cable feed out of your house loop, feed it into a vcr, then take the video output (RCA) from the vcr and feed that to a monitor, yes that will work. You cannot however use the "F" end and put a BNC on it and expect it to work. It sounds to me like I would go down to your local home electronics store buy a cheapo TV with a cable input and be done with it for about 75 bucks. But thats just me.

[<Shootblue>]

I was trying the F connector out, not the RCA. Is there a way to connect the F out, put in the RCA in(same VCR) and then run the RCA out of the same VCR to the booth monitor?

[tdelarm]

Shootblue,

Yes, it is possible.

First make sure you have video coming out of the VCR with a proper cable into a normal TV input.

IF you have video then you know your RCA or F-type fitting VCR output to BNC in is built wrong.

Occasional out in the field I transfer stringer video via RCA to BNC fitting just fine.

Goodluck!

[Icarus112277]

You should be able to do it, but you may have the have the VCR in record mode (or E/E) to see the output.

If i understand you correctly you are taking an RF cable to a splitter, taking one output to the RF inout on your VCR, using it as a tuner, and then taking the RCA video out of the VCR, using an RCA-&gt;BNC adaptor and putting it into a monitor. It should work so long as your VCR is in record or E/E.

But if for some reasons you are taking the RF off the VCR and trying to adapt that tio BNC (like the guy above said) you may have a proble. Take the RCA out. No reason it shoyuld not work.

[<shootblue>]

I think I got it...thanks for all your help guys.