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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
Usually, it's the VCR section in these units that gives trouble and when the VCR messes up, the TV usually won't work.
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Hmmm.
I wonder why these combos are set up that way. It doesn't make sense to me to render the TV inoperative just because the VCR quits for any reason. That is one big reason I would never own one of these combination units, and why I use separate components in my video system -- if the VCR or DVD goes bad, I can still use the remaining device until I can replace the defective one.
With these TV/VCR combo sets, however, if the VCR goes, the entire unit is rendered utterly useless, as you noted. (I wonder if today's combo HDTV/DVD flat panels have the same problem.) I think it would have been much better had the designers of these sets made them so that if the VCR failed, the TV would still be usable. If the owner still wanted to use a VCR with the television, he or she still could do so, simply by connecting an external VCR to the TV's antenna terminals.
BTW, how did you get the TV in that combo to work after the VCR quit? My best guess is that you put a jumper across a switch inside the unit (or cut said switch completely out of the circuit), not unlike bypassing a defective power switch in a TV.