What's the best TV converter box?

Connecting DVD Recorder to Converter Box to TV?

• I'm setting up my Grandmother's converter box to her older tv, not that old, but old enough. I can't get the DVD player to record. I have it on Channel 3 but it won't play back anything when the converter box is plugged in. If I unplug it and set it up without the box it will play and record. I've got the 2 sets of RCA one going into converter box and the other into tv and still nothing. Then on her new HDTV the DVD recorder won't record either because on ch 3 it is looking for a signal and I'm just lost.

• Answer:

  Converter boxes are squirrelly things. Here is how I set up my Converter Box to work with my DVD Recorder and TV set. Antenna coax goes to Ant. Input on Converter Box. Converter box RCA (Line out) Outputs to RCA (Line Inputs) on your DVD Recorder. Then your DVD Recorder RCA (Line Out) outputs to your TV's RCA (Line In) Inputs. The RCA line in/outs are the Yellow, White and Red connections. You will need two sets of three wire RCA cables for this. Turn on both your Converter box, and your DVD Recorder. Set your DVD Recorder to the Video Inputs that you connected your Converter box output to, then set your TV to the Video inputs that corresponds to your DVD Recorder's output. Forget about channel 3 altogether. You will need to always have both your DVD Recorder and your TV on and set to these settings at all times to watch/record TV, and then only change channels on the Converter box. To set your DVD Recorder to record a show on a timer, you will need to leave your Converter box ON at all times!