Thank you all for your suggestions.

As for the SIMA device, that's a more elaborate (and expensive) solution than I'm really interested in.

Here are more details on my set up (all Sony):
TV: WEGA KV36FV-1
VCR: SLV-M20HF
DVD: S530D

The VCR is hooked to the TV via RCA cables, with the L/R audio and Video output of VCR connected to the "VIDEO 1 IN" (L/R audio and Video) RCA jacks on the back of the TV. The S-Link on the VCR is connected to the S-Link jack immediately below the VIDEO 1 IN jacks above.

The other input jacks on the TV include VIDEO 3 IN (same as above), and color component (Y, PB, PR) jacks to which the DVD player is attached.

So, since the TV tunes to VIDEO 1 when the VCR is started, and those are the jacks to which the VCR is connected to the TV, it would seem it is working "correctly." Unfortunately, the VCR isn't viewable on VIDEO 1.

I've scoured the manuals (which are skimpy!) and there is virtually no mention of the S-Link feature (literally only a single sentence).

This isn't a major issue, but I sorta stuck with all Sony components to take advantage of this capability.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!