get the right plugs / leads and you will be right - fox IQ or another model?

Its the Foxtel - Set Top Unit Model 250.

Yeah im pretty sure iv got all the right cables, it just wont record, records free to air insted.

I wont to get it working for the big time playoffs.

Anon thanks, just need to ask a couple of questions with that.

1. Do you need to connect the Audio leads and the Video leads or just the Video leads. It would make sence to connect both wouldnt it?.

2. Would i find a scart lead with six av plugs at any tech store?. The one i found laying around is old from my old unit. Would like to get a new one.

3. If i connect the VHS to the foxtel AV can i play videos through it?. Would the videos run through foxtel, thats the part that confused me a little.

Thank you for the help.

I'm suprised they didn't connect your Foxtel box to your VCR when you got it installed. Unless you've gotten a VCR since then. That AV cable advice sounds right to me though. Just set your VCR to the AV channel, and then press the AV button on your Foxtel remote, to make sure that it is actually Foxtel being recorded.

Make sure the volume is all the way up! I've recorded so many things in which it was on mute and it records straight off foxtel so if it's muted on Fox the audio won't play on the VCR

Sounds like you just havnt selected the av channel on your vcr.

If you can afford it IQ is the only way to go. So simple - even for a technical equipment tragic.

What is a VCR?????

Hey Kobe, You have to connect you Foxtel set up through your VCR. and tune in the correct station.
also when you record as said by ELG, make sure foxtel volume up all the way

I have my Foxtel run through my video recorder (rather than through the AV which is where the installer set it up through) so to watch Foxtel, I have to switch the TV to the channel I would watch the old video tapes on(on my TV it is Channel 1). This allows me to tape anything off Foxtel but it will tape whatever channel I have Foxtel on, even if I change the channel whilst recording! As ELG said though, make sure your volume on Foxtel is at it's maximum otherwise you will not hear anything! Hope this helps and you get to tape the Lakers game!

I think everyone is on to it. Generally the foxtel box has two scart plugs, one plugged into your tv and the other one into your vcr. Like someone said earlier, just make sure the vcr is on AV1 or AV2 whichever one you have plugged the cords into and make sure the foxtel volume is up!

Kobe, incase you didn't know,




make sure the foxtel volume is up...

thanks guys, help arppreciated.


the volume will be well up =].

Try Jaycar for cables, they are normally a few $$$ cheaper than Dick Smith.

Also don't mute your foxtel while recording, made the mistake of doing that one day and have a 6ers Grand Final with no sound in a part of it.

Don't use a VCR anymore, have got IQ and then i just transfer everything to my PC to be put onto DVD.

anon, I think it would be USB to be USB, then convert it to DVD.

Anon thanks for all the help, got a cable from dick smiths and it is all working perfect. Taped todays lakers vs spurs game. All good.

I've got a DVD card in my pc, allows to plug a VCR, video camera and even my IQ into via the RCA ports and run some software DVD software that allows you to play from source and record onto my HDD. Then allows me to add menus, pictures, music and then convert it into a DVD file and then burn to a disc

can you record one foxtel channel on AV, whilst watching a a different channel on foxtel?

Hello,

I seem to have the same problem but my foxtel volumne was up. i have the scart going to my vcr as well and putting it on av i can watch foxtel through there, but when it comes to recording i have picture but no sound. Also would like to know more about hooking a vcr tv foxtel video camera up to a pc and recording everything onto that.

im running a scart cable with S-video end into my mini dv camera then running the firewire cable from that into the computer then capturing it to record it. only thing is im not getting audio for some reason, any help appreciated.

I have Foxtel but not IQ. Can anyone tell me the correct connections so I can record Foxtel programs to my LG V271 VCR.The Foxtel box has 2 scart leads.
Geoff.