Definitely an elf, I see her pointy ears poking out of her hair. LOL!!! And great BME. Donna

Is the 'channel 10' that you are trying to record an analog or digital signal? If analog, then you probably need to turn the converter OFF, so that the 'analog pass through' feature is enabled. Then tune your VCR to channel 10. (If you want to also watch the broadcast, your TV would need to be tuned to either channel 10 or channel 3 - depending on the specifics of your VCR.) If digital, then yes, your VCR would need to be on channel 3 (as does your TV.) If you are recording a digital signal though, you will get better audio and video quality by using the A/V connections from the converter box to the VCR. And same between the VCR and the TV set. I wonder if the reason you couldn't get the A/V connections to work was because some menu option in either the VCR or TV was not set to the correct input? What you might consider is to connect the VCR to the TV using the A/V cables. Period. Then use the TV tuner in the VCR for all the analog tuning for the next 2.5 months. (When watching/recording digital, you would turn the converter box on and set the VCR to channel 3.) After that, just use the A/V cables between the converter box and the VCR. This gets rid of all the 'channel 3' stuff and gives the best quality possible.

i live in the country and have very poor shipping, no matter what time of the year, so i am not a good one to count on... i ordered on monday and they shipped tuesday morn, and they even let me add more items the next day and didn't charge me anymore shipping. i got my box today priority mail, but remember, i have extremely slow mail in the country... also not sure how many have seen the cupcake wrappers, most place sell you packs of 50 for $40, here they sell 10 packs from $10-16, depending on the design, a great way to test them without a huge outlay for 50. here is their link below. Here is a link that might be useful: fancy flour cupcake wrappers

gibsona, I'm glad the pig arrived in one piece. I'm also glad my friend cathy's lovely little box arrived at its destination too - she is off on vacation in CA and we'll post her bank when she gets home. She's led our local art camp for about 12 years now, so doing it with the camp tile was a perfect choice for her. I got back from Italy in the wee hours of the morning and I just dropped in to see if it got to you --- now I'm off to the post office and pick up my bank!!