Technical help needed (VCR to TV)

[cooldan]

help needed: I found some old VHS tapes so I got hold of a VCR off Facebook. The VCR came with two leads, a SCART to SCART and a red/white to DIN (I think); see pics of VCR ports - including two SCART sockets. VCR also has some ports on the front.



My TV obviously has no SCART input so I bought an adaptor to HDMI off Amazon - it has two sections. See pics.



I’ve tried all sorts of combinations of outputs and inputs, using the second cable, and got nowhere, the TV never recognises the input.



Any advice?

 

[Andydn]

Red & white lead is for audio.
Third cable (yellow) would be video.
You need a scart to phono, or just phono to phono (red, white, yellow) as your TV has inputs for those (well should have but can only see the yellow input for picture and not the red & white input for audio) You can’t go from scart to HDMI.

Also the lead you have bought shows the scart as ‘input’ but you need your scart to OUTPUT from the VCR and INPUT into the TV

 

[iamCornhoolio]

disregard what I said in the previous message, that looks like a combination of composite and component. You should be able to plug the yellow lead in there and set tv input to av.

No idea where your audio goes in. If you need a bridging device a retrotink type device is what you are looking for.

There are cheaper knock offs, but they are frowned on for stealing the original guys design

 

[cooldan]

disregard what I said in the previous message, that looks like a combination of composite and component. You should be able to plug the yellow lead in there and set tv input to av.

No idea where your audio goes in. If you need a bridging device a retrotink type device is what you are looking for.

There are cheaper knock offs, but they are frowned on for stealing the original guys design

You used your other account for the other message

Thanks, I’ll keep trying various combinations

 

[iamCornhoolio]

You used your other account for the other message

Thanks, I’ll keep trying various combinations

Ah, andydn and i are different people, i deleted my previous message where i was blathering on about component connections!

 

[scottydoesntknow]

I’ll send u some pics of my set up in a sec I recently got back into video
Collecting

 

[scottydoesntknow]

I have a 4k lg tv I use the old leads from the scart yellow to green on modern tv and white to white red to red for sound, if u just have sound coming through no pic means the heads on your video player may need cleaning

 

[scottydoesntknow]

Upstairs I use the the scart to hdmi usb power lead u have in your pic, this is that setup needs to be in the power source usb

 

[Calimori]

I thought Scart was analog so either needs to go into an analogue TV port (composite RGB or the yellow jack) or needs a digital converter.
A cable from Scart to HDMI with no box in the middle feels like it won't work, it needs a converter. Or the TV be told the signal is analogue and needs converting.

I am going retro gamining at the moment and finding the same issues.

 

[Paul]

I thought Scart was analog so either needs to go into an analogue TV port (composite RGB or the yellow jack) or needs a digital converter.

I thought the same. The only other way around it would be to break the RGB and Audio out from the scart and stick it in an RGB Into the TV, or as suggested above use the Yellow (Composite) for the video out of the VCR and into the TV...

Red and White are Audio - Just need to make sure you get your ins and outs sorted correctly...

@cooldan whats the model of your TV and also the VCR please?

 

[Wizcat]

I found some old VHS tapes..

I'd just forget about them and use pornhub mate

 

[scottydoesntknow]

Just disconnected mine this is how it should look scart end back of vcr then hdmi cable in back of tv and usb to power the signal, other option more simple I use with my snes and ps2 is the first pic on my 4k scart one end with red yellow white leads the other end into each port only difference is av on modern TVs is green not yellow like the older ones but still works yellow to green, sorry for bad photos, was trying to hold the tv off the wall

 

[Calimori]

Ah, the end bit needs power so it converts the signal from analogue to digital.

 

[Alan Syson]

I'd just forget about them and use pornhub mate

He’s found his hand shandy stash from the 90s.

 

[cooldan]

He’s found his hand shandy stash from the 90s.

Alan Syson!