Recording to vcr

Hope you all can help me out
I have the Motorola qip2500-3 receiver from Verizon fios. I am trying to record to my vcr. Does anybody know how I can achieve this task
thanks for your time
glen

I just returned my 2500 box, but I had it connected to both the TV and a VCR. How you do it depends upon the available inputs to the TV and VCR however. I ran the s-VHS output from the 2500 box to the TV, and used a Y cable for the audio, so the Right and Left Audio was connected via AV cables to both the VCR and the TV. I ran an AV cable from the composite output on the 2500 box to the VCR, and then recorded from the Aux input on the VCR. The other choice is to run coax from the output of the 2500 box into the VCR, and have the VCR tune to channel 3 or 4...
However the picture quality will be better if you use either composite video or s-VHS output from the set top box.

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