How to Copy a Digital Cable Box
Many cable boxes today come with DVRs, or a digital video recorder. A DVD allows you to record your favorite television shows. Alternatively, you can record from your cable box via your VCR or DVD player that has recording capabilities. Both players can copy a digital cable box. You need two sets of RCA video cables. Ensure that they are the traditional red, white, and yellow cables.co
- Connect one of your RCA video cables to the digital cable box's "Video Out" jack. You need the RCA video cable that is the color yellow to connect it to "Video Out." Connect the white and red RCA audio cable to both "Audio Out" jacks at the back of your digital cable box.
- Plug in the other ends of your RCA cable into the "Audio In" and "Video In" jacks on the back of your DVD or VCR. You plug in the RCA cables with the matching color, such as white-to-white, yellow to yellow, and red to red.
- Grab another set of RCA cables and connect the red, white, and yellow portions of the cables into the remaining "Audio Out" and Video Out" jacks on your VCR or DVD player.
- Connect the other ends of your second set of RCA cables into the "Audio In" and "Video In" jacks located at the back of your television set. Remember; plug the cables into its matching color for this to work properly.
- Plug in your DVD player or VCR. Power your DVD player or VCR, digital cable box and television. You can begin to record your shows on your VCR or DVD player.