an old vhs question at DVinfo.net

Graham Jones · April 29th, 2005, 01:51 PM

Just leafing through crappy cheap VHS recorders.. because today I have been fleetingly forced to use that horrible old medium!

If you want to feed a signal into a VHS recorder via SCART in order to record it onto a tape do you need a VHS machine with 2 X Scarts at the back - or is 1 X scart enough?

Rob Lohman · April 30th, 2005, 05:43 AM

1x SCART should be enough if it sees the input signal. And that's a difficult
one. Perhaps it's best to bring a dv camera with cable with a scart at one
end to test it out before buying? I'm not sure all VCR's (especially old ones)
support that...

If a VCR has 2x SCART it may be more likely to support it (why would you
otherwise need the second scart, in theory you could even do input & output
with just one).

April 29th, 2005, 01:51 PM	#1
Graham Jones Major Player Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 489	an old vhs question Just leafing through crappy cheap VHS recorders.. because today I have been fleetingly forced to use that horrible old medium! If you want to feed a signal into a VHS recorder via SCART in order to record it onto a tape do you need a VHS machine with 2 X Scarts at the back - or is 1 X scart enough? __________________ www.irishfilmmaker.com

April 30th, 2005, 05:43 AM	#2
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	1x SCART should be enough if it sees the input signal. And that's a difficult one. Perhaps it's best to bring a dv camera with cable with a scart at one end to test it out before buying? I'm not sure all VCR's (especially old ones) support that... If a VCR has 2x SCART it may be more likely to support it (why would you otherwise need the second scart, in theory you could even do input & output with just one). __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors