How do you hook up a vcr and dvd player to a dvr?

How do I hook up my new DVD/VCR to my tv/Comcast DVR cable box?

• I have a new Sony dvd/vcr and cannot figure out how to hook it up to my TV (older Toshiba). I also have Comcast Moxie DVR which is hooked up to the tv as well. That is working fine; I just cannot figure out how to hook up the dvd player. Thanks! Kelly

• Answer:

  Your television - unless it is really, really old - should have multiple input source options, with different cabling options (coaxial, composite (red, white, and yellow jacks/plugs), S-Video, component - maybe). If so, you would pick an appropriate output from the DVD/VCR player to match up and run the player in parallel to the DVR cable box. The TV remote would have a toggle switch to allow you go back and forth between input options. If you have one and only one input to the TV (or, possibly, for other reasons), you can run the DVD/VCR in series between the DVR and TV. Connect your DVR cable box output to a DVD/VCR input jack and the DVD/VCR output to the TV input. You end up playing your DVR/Cable through your DVD/VCR player - a very common setup. So check your television set input options, and your DVD/VCR input and output options to get an idea about what will work.