I'm trying to wife proof the amount of remotes and switches to press! I would like feed my VCR to the Tape input of the 1050 and then feed the tape out to the TV video in and then feed the the TV video out back to the 1050 video 1. Won't this give me 2 ways of having sound from the VCR to the 1050?

The one problem there is that the only way you'd get sound from the VCR to the 1050 would be when "tape" was the input in use (tape out passes the active input's audio, so if you switched to video1 in this case you'd be getting the TV's sound, which would be the sound from tape out, which would be the video1 input, which ......).

How is the video signal getting from VCR to TV? If you are using coax cable (the "old fashioned" approach that your wife may be most familiar with, even if it isn't as high quality a connection as composite or S-video), I have an idea. The TV obviously has an audio output (you're connecting it to video1 in your current plan) -- run that to the "aux" audio input so that the TV's sound can go through the 1050. You can also take the VCR's output to the 1050's video1 (and go from the video1 output to the VCR input if you want). Would that be of any help? (This may not help at all, as I'm not sure what you are doing with video signals at the moment...)

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Gonk

Thanks for answering so fast Gonk. You answered the question that I was asked in a round about way. I wasn't sure if the tape loop was active all the time. Sounds like it's not. I have the video going straight to the tv from the vcr. The TV right now is plugged into video 1.

Thanks Gonk I found a way around it. I didn't want to but I had to run the vcr audio to the tv then back to the 1050. More connections than I wanted but better than divorce!

Glad you got something to work (and I agree -- an extra run of cables is better than divorce... ).

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Gonk

[This message has been edited by gonk (edited March 01, 2002).]