Copying video tapes using scart to scart

I am trying to copy a video tape many times using two Panasonic vcr's and
cannot get scart to scart working

It works using the coaxial tv aerial type lead but this is poor quality. I
havtried a scart to scart lead between the two videos and if I plug the TV
aerial into the one I want to play, the reception comes through top the
other VCR. However if I play a tape, nothing appears.

There is an AV1 and AV2 scart socket on both machines and trying
combinations of AV1-3 (and other) channels still shows the TV OK but no tape
playback

My Panansonic has basically two scart sockets on the back, it has the tv
aerial in and it has out and three inputs for picture and left / right sound
on the front. I have also tried coming out of the scart and going into the
inputs on the front of the machine........still nothing!

Can anyone help please?

Luke

luke wrote:

Can anyone help please?

Make sure you have a fully wired scart lead for a start. Make sure you
put one end into the TV out scart of the player you are going to play
from (some players only have one-way scarts, one in, one out. Not all
players have both scarts wired for in and out, so pick the one that you
know feeds to tele and you can't go wrong).

On the player that is to record put the lead into one of the scarts
checking that it actually does input and is not an output only scart.
Set the player to record from that input.

One final thing, if it's commercial tapes you are copying there's a
very high possibility it will have macrovision protection and will ruin
any copies you make this way anyway. You'll need a macrovision removal
box, or cable, to make a stable recording.

Regards

Mark

Thanks for your help Mark

Make sure you have a fully wired scart lead for a start.
I have two leads one is a complete cable which came with my DVD player which
I have tried
both ways round and the other is from a video editing kit which consists of
two scart sockets
and a joining lead with a in and out on each socket, whixh again i've tried
both ways round,
so hopefully the cables should be OK.

On the player that is to record put the lead into one of the scarts
checking that it actually does input and is not an output only scart.
mmmm I've tried that

One final thing, if it's commercial tapes you are copying
Nothing dodgy there, just non commercial tapes

The thing I really don't understand is that I am getting TV reception
through the scart leads but
nothing happens when you play video tapes

luke wrote:

The thing I really don't understand is that I am getting TV reception
through the scart leads but nothing happens when you play video tapes

Not sure what to suggest now - it shoud work (unless there's something
wrong with the VCR, of course). You could check to see that any of the
pins are bent on the ends of the scart lead. My daughter managed to bend
one flat which produced all sorts of odd behaviour till I figured out
what was happening.

Regards

Mark

it shoud work (unless there's something wrong with the VCR, of course).
It is a possibility

You could check to see that any of the pins are bent on the ends of the
scart lead. My daughter managed to bend
one flat which produced all sorts of odd behaviour till I figured out what
was happening.
haha - its a new lead, but thanks for trying to help anyway

Luke

luke wrote:
I am trying to copy a video tape many times using two Panasonic vcr's
and cannot get scart to scart working

It works using the coaxial tv aerial type lead but this is poor
quality. I havtried a scart to scart lead between the two videos and
if I plug the TV aerial into the one I want to play, the reception
comes through top the other VCR. However if I play a tape, nothing
appears.

There is an AV1 and AV2 scart socket on both machines and trying
combinations of AV1-3 (and other) channels still shows the TV OK but
no tape playback

My Panansonic has basically two scart sockets on the back, it has the
tv aerial in and it has out and three inputs for picture and left /
right sound on the front. I have also tried coming out of the scart
and going into the inputs on the front of the machine........still
nothing!

Can anyone help please?

Luke

Is the 'recording' video set to AV?

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