Audio & Cable Question

[SBacklin]

I was wondering if anyone could explain the following issue. I have my receivers hooked up in two ways. One is the A/V Jacks (Red, White, Yellow) and the regular coaxial cable. I always keep it on the A/V Jacks for normal viewing but when I record to my VHS I have to use the coaxial cable. The issue is when I try to watch TV using the coaxial connections, I have turn crank up my TV volume pretty high to get any kind of normal volume for me to hear. If I use the A/V jacks, the sound levels are more normal. Since I mentioned I record to VHS, you can imagine the issues I have trying to hear the show. I have to turn up the TV so loud that I can start to hear a bit of a background noise because the TV is too loud and the volume recorded wasn't high enough. When the installer installed my system, he used his cable he brought to go from the dish to the receiver but, from the receiver to my VCRs and TV, he used the cables that I had left over from Comcast. Can this be the reason for the low sound when watching via coaxial connections? Thanks for any information.

[Antennaguy]

You would get a better picture and audio if you would connect the yellow video and red and white audio cables from the D* receiver to your VCR input connections and then another set of identical cables from the VCR output connections to your TV. You will have to find out how to access the AUX input on your VCR, it may be a separate button on the remote or even listed as channel 0 on your VCR (hopefully you have the manual for your VCR). You also will always have to turn on the VCR even to just watch TV, but with no tape in it there is really very little wear, I have been doing it for years. You will record a better picture than the channel 3 or 4 that the modulator provides and you have never been recording in stereo before. ( If you VCR is not stereo, I would not recommend this set-up.