[lanaanderson]

The TV is connected to a cable box (ran in component mode). This works well.

A friend asked me to record something for her and brought over her VCR (an old one). I read the instructions that came with the TV and then tried to follow a diagram that came with the television. The diagram showed to use a two way splitter and this is where the confusion comes in for me. I could not decide if the cable line should run through the television or the Cable Box. I understood that the mode should be Video 2 to use the VCR to record. I am having the hardest time with understanding the video in or video out on each device. Can anyone help me with this?

[FadedMaster]

There are two ways to connect these devices.

First way, is using a splitter:
- Component out from cable box to TV.
- Cable from wall into splitter.
- Cable out from splitter into cable box.
- Cable out from splitter into VCR.
- Cable out from VCR into TV. OR Composite (yellow, white, red) out from VCR into TV.

The other way, without a splitter, will record ONLY what is going on with the cable box (which includes pulling up the guide and flipping through it to see what's on other channels):
- Component out from cable box to TV.
- Cable from wall into cable box.
- Composite (yellow, white, red) out from cable box into VCR. OR Cable out from cable box into VCR.
- Cable out from VCR into TV. OR Composite (yellow, white, red) out from VCR into TV.