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I need a friggin' wiring diagram for the TV room. Who'd've thought -- me, the person who has largely gone through life with a TV and two VCRs wired in series.
Today I needed to program VCR 2 for the first time since we got the new equipment. I couldn't find it. Not the box -- I mean the signal. Eventually I traced the output wire and got Dani to read to me the nearly-illegible marking on the back of the TV: "antenna 2". Oh yeah; I forgot about that. (I did not do the initial wiring, to be fair.)
Now each VCR is labelled with its logical location and, for good measure, its programming. Though it appears that newer VCRs are smart enough to remember their programming during power flickers, it doesn't hurt to make my life easier in the event that fails. (And we're still using one VCR that's too old and dumb for that trick.)
Figuring out (and then documenting) how to copy tapes will wait for another day. I have things to do before Yom Kippur. This started out as a 5-minute exercise: "Oh look; we're coming out of reruns, and two shows I want to watch overlap". (Actually, three do, out of a grand total of four shows that I watch. But "West Wing" doesn't start new episodes until next week.)
Today I needed to program VCR 2 for the first time since we got the new equipment. I couldn't find it. Not the box -- I mean the signal. Eventually I traced the output wire and got Dani to read to me the nearly-illegible marking on the back of the TV: "antenna 2". Oh yeah; I forgot about that. (I did not do the initial wiring, to be fair.)
Now each VCR is labelled with its logical location and, for good measure, its programming. Though it appears that newer VCRs are smart enough to remember their programming during power flickers, it doesn't hurt to make my life easier in the event that fails. (And we're still using one VCR that's too old and dumb for that trick.)
Figuring out (and then documenting) how to copy tapes will wait for another day. I have things to do before Yom Kippur. This started out as a 5-minute exercise: "Oh look; we're coming out of reruns, and two shows I want to watch overlap". (Actually, three do, out of a grand total of four shows that I watch. But "West Wing" doesn't start new episodes until next week.)