Time warner's 8000hd DVR to VCR record not working (follow..

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"Toomanyputters" <rainydays@theswamp.com> wrote in message
news:i0tod.18213$DE1.980333@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> Following a third visit to the house, the TW installer's supervisor found
> that the cabling was done incorrectly by the installer. Frustrating as it
> was, this is how the coax cable needs to be done: Coax out from the wall
> to the cable in connector on the DVR box......Coax out from the DVR box
> (cable out) to the VCR coax cable IN connector on the VCR.......Coax out
> from the VCR OUT to the coax IN connector on the TV. This is in addition
> to the YPP cable from the HDTV to the DVR box for high definition. Also I
> have the red/white/yellow cable on the DVR to VCR connect and.......the
> red/white/yellow cable from the VCR out to the HDTV input 1. Some of this
> cabling seems redundant. I hesitate to pull the red/white/yellow cables
> since it is working now. But I'll give it a try.

I pulled the red/white/cabling from the DVR/VCR/TV in/outs with no loss of
playback/record on the VCR. It would seem that TW could get it right on the
DVR instruction booklet they hand out where they do not use coax, but the
red/white/yellow cables. But that is how we got it to work, and I ain't
messing with it anymore.