cobinrox asked:
Main issue here is setting up for timed recordings; in other words, taping programs (including programs on different channels) without the user intervention (aside from setting up the programming of the VCR timer).
It doesn’t sound like this is possible. Most of the Satellite TV-to-VCR questions appear to be related to real-time taping, where the user presses the record button on the VCR to tape the immediate broadcast.
Also, the question pertains only to VCR recording, not the built-in DVR recording which is provided with some services.
One Response to “Has anyone been able to set up TIMED recordings from satellite TV program to a VCR?”
If you can set your satellite box to tune to a channel (usually requires a non-DVR satellite box with the old timer features) then you set your VCR which is connected to the satellite box to record at the same time (manually syncronize the clock in the VCR to the clock in the satellite box).
Usually you go to the MENU of the satellite box and SELECT the program in the future that you want to RECORD. In a non-DVR model this just tunes the channel.
Then you set up the VCR recording following the method that applies to your VCR for a timed recording.