Nintendo consoles not working properly with DVD Recorder?

anonymous

2012-11-08 05:26:34 UTC

I have been using my NES, SNES, Sega Mega Drive, N64, And a bunch of newer consoles directly plugged into my 32" Samsung LED TV with no issues whatsoever. Picture and sound perfect.

So i decided i wanted to record my game footage with a DVD Recorder so i bought one. Now, after connecting everything properly, the RF cables into the DVD, and then from the DVD to the TV, i could get a picture, but it would flicker. It flickered in a way so that you could see a ribbon of the black-white static passing vertically across the screen twice per second. And absolutely no sound. At this point i tried everything i could think of, and im a pretty technical guy.
I tried switching cables, switching outputs, inputs, channels, at some point i believed it had something to do with the frequency of the RF-signal so i manually tried to crank it up and down but to no avail. I tried to use different power adaptors to the SNES and NES but no luck there either.
The weirdest thing is that the Mega Drive audio and video was working perfectly when connected through the DVDrecorder, but not the SNES and NES, which showed the EXACT same symptoms. I Tried this on 3 different HDTVs. The consoles all work perfectly when directly connected to the TVs but same exact issue when connected through the DVD.

I gave up after many hours of fiddling and searching the web, and returned the LG DVD/VCR recorder, and bought a new, better one.
Now i have a Panasonic DMR-EH63 DVD-recorder.
This time, i have sound on both the SNES and NES when plugging them in the same way as with the LG DVDrecorder, no problems there. The picture is not showing the static ribbon flying over the screen anymore either, so the problem is almost solved, BUT:

Now the picture is ALMOST normal for 10 seconds at a time. At the end of the 10 second interval, the screen briefly, and only once flashes brightly white, and immediately after that it seems as if it lowers the brightness, and then slowly increases it again over the next 10 seconds until it flashes again. Its like it stores up some kind of energy and then lets it out in a burst every 10s.
And heres another weird thing: At this point, if i go into the DVDs channel settings, and find the SNES/NES channel and manually adjust the frequency, if i go high enough, it will stop with this 10s flash. But at this point, the picture is looking very ugly and jiggling. Also if i go just a bit too high, the sound with get punished aswell.

What else can i try?