reworked my old TV-VCR set to CRT DTV set.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Some of the more common Funai-Symphonic-Philips-Sylvania TV-VCRs might not cooperate as easily though, since their system control is in the syscon microprocessor that's on the VCR board.

The ones that adjust the contrast, brightness, hue and color via the remote control would be more difficult to handle. I knew that my set, which has these adjustments as old fashioned analog pots on the side of the cabinet, would be easier to deal with. Also my set had the VCR power source supplies comming from the TV chassis. The chassis doesn't appear to miss the VCR load. I did use a 12V line that fed the VCR to power the audio amp I installed to drive the speakers (the VCR chassis used to do that).

One other thing to do when using new push buttons on the converter boz, or elsewhere in electronics, is to be sure that the metal case of those buttons are grounded. This to divert static sparks to ground and not thru the microprocessors.