RP5010A RCA recorder - RCA RP5010 Digital Voice Recorder

How To Connect a DVD Recorder to a Television:
1.If you want to use higher quality cables, then you may want to connect the TV Source (Cable and Satellite only, not Antenna) to the DVD Recorder using Composite, S-Video or Component video and audio cables.
2.To use composite cables (also known as RCA, the yellow plug is video, the red and white plugs, audio): Plug in the composite cables to the RCA outputs on the back of your TV source and then plug in the composite cables to the RCA inputs of the DVD Recorder. Then connect the RCA outputs from the DVD Recorder to RCA inputs on the TV.
3.To use S-Video and RCA audio cables: Plug in the S-Video cable to the S-Video output of the TV source. Plug in the S-Video cable to the S-Video input on the DVD Recorder. Next, connect the RCA audio cable to the output on the TV source and the input on the DVD Recorder. Finally, connect the S-Video cable and the RCA audio cable to the output on the DVD Recorder and the input on the TV.
5. To use Component Video cables and RCA audio cables: Connect the Component Video cable and the red and white RCA audio cables to the outputs on the TV source and the inputs on the DVD Recorder. Next, connect the Component Video cable and RCA audio cable to the outputs on the DVD Recorder and the inputs on the TV.
6. Now that the TV source (either Cable, Satellite or Antenna), the DVD Recorder and the TV are all connected, you need to configure everything to make sure that TV is coming through the DVD Recorder, for recording and viewing.
7. Turn on the Cable Box or Satellite Receiver, TV and DVD Recorder.
8. If you connected everything using the RF connections then the TV should be passing through the DVD Recorder and displaying Television on the TV screen. To record in this mode, you would need to tune to either channel 3 or 4 on the TV and then use the DVD Recorder TV Tuner to change channels and record.
9. If you made connections using either Composite, S-Video or Component cables, then to view or record TV, two adjustments need to be made. First, the DVD Recorder needs to be tuned to the appropriate input, typically L1 or L3 for rear inputs and L2 for front inputs. Second, the TV also must be tuned to the proper input, on a TV usually Video 1 or Video 2.
10. If you have a Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound A/V Receiver you can connect either a Digital Optical Audio cable or Coaxial Digital Audio cable from the DVD Recorder to the receiver to listen to audio through the receiver.

Try in this link:
- basic-operation-of-the-rca-vrc5220-digital-voice-recorder
- RCA/VR5220/Research/67747?search=vr5220%20manual

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Try removing the batteries for 5 minutes then format or delete everything on the recorder.If that doesnt work, send it to rca for service,

Go to RCA web site, find support or download or alike. If you can find the exact model, download one or two similar then read those similar features. Try and error. that's how I got my RP5017 work

there is a link to a complete user's/instruction manual (PDF file) under "Product Details" here:
http://www.amazon.com/RCA-RP5010-Digital-Voice-Recorder/dp/B00006LEJ9

Update the firmware

how do you delete what you have recorded?

You can download it from this site:
http://www.retrevo.com/search/v2/jsp/downloadPage.jsp?doc=e50cb0e0116e016aa561b231a9d4e893&q=RCA+RP5012

You are finalizing the CD after recording? After finalization they should play in all but very old CD players.

Here's the direct link:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/media/i3d/01/A/man-migrate/MANUAL000013901.pdf