How to connect my laptop to TV through VCR?

Is there a certain way to connect a 6 year old RCA VCR to a new Samsung HD TV to be able to record?

• I have tried every way I can think of to hook up my VCR to this new TV and still cannot get it to record. RCA told me I would still need to use a converter box so the VCR has something to read? Well, I even tried that, and no luck. An appliance store told me it sounds as if my VCR is bad. But it was recording from my old analog TV with the converter box, previously.... I have had the new HD TV almost a year now and would like to record but can't figure out if I'm doing something wrong, or if I need a new VCR for HD TV, or if my VCR has possibly gone bad suddenly. It plays tapes just fine. Just can't record. Does anyone know about this? Samsung said I should contact the VCR manufacturer (which I did).

• Answer:

  Even though you do not say, I have to assume your current TV signal is broadcast TV that comes in via an antenna. Your VCR has an analog tuner to receive an analog TV signal which no longer exists. That is what the converter box is for. The current broadcast signal is digital and the converter box will receive it and then change it to analog, which your old VCR can still deal with. >RCA told me I would still need to use a converter box so the VCR has something to read? Well, I even tried that, and no luck< RCA was right, but the one thing you did not tell us is did you connect your outside antenna to the antenna port on the converter box? If you did, give me a zip code. If you did hook up to an indoor antenna, you need an outdoor one to really get a usable signal. >I have tried every way I can think of to hook up my VCR to this new TV and still cannot get it to record< Exactly what I would expect. All of those video connections on the back of your TV set are video inputs to your TV... they do not output **ANYTHING** so connecting them to your VCR is pointless.