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RE: Setting up DVDR with Sky box

Thanks all, and particularly to Sue Brown. Without having read your post until just now, last night I did pretty much what you suggested! I discovered that the real key is that button on the remote to switch A/V. Once I had found that it was relatively plain sailing; as you said, the picture appears on AV2 and can be recorded no problem.

But boy oh boy, don`t those manuals make it difficult!

I now look forward to happy recording in hopefully much better quality than my duff old VHS recorder.

Best wishes to the entire support community.
J.

RE: Setting up DVDR with Sky box

Hi,
Yes I have got the setting to AV2.

I was expecting to see a picture on the screen, but you indicate I would only see a blue screen... I think I got that at one point but did not realise that this meant it was `seeing` the sky feed.

I`ll look at that again this evening.

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply.
J.

RE: Setting up DVDR with Sky box

thanks for taking the trouble to reply,

the second scart socket on the sky box is already taken by a scart lead going up to the TV.
are you saying that I should take it out of the TV and put it into the DVDR? i don`t think this would work because then the scart lead currently going from the DVDR to the TV would have to be removed and therefore nothing would be connected to the TV

puzzling....

J

Setting up DVDR with Sky box

Hi, I hope someone can help with this problem...

Just bought a LG DVD DR175 and am setting it up. We have a TV with 2 SCART sockets and a Sky box with 2 SCART sockets. The signal is brought in on a cable to the Sky box and there is NO separate aerial to the TV.

I have set all the SCART leads as per the instructions. In essence this is a SCART lead from the sky box in to the DVDR, and a SCART lead from the DVDR out to the TV.

The TV can `see` the output from the DVDR, as I can play a pre-recorded DVD absolutely fine.

However, the DVDR cannot `see` the output from the Sky box. I have set it to autoscan for the signal to no effect. As a test I tried putting the Sky on and recording a DVD, but it came out blank so obviously did not work.

There is a setting on the DVDR setup for AV2, which can be flicked between `Decoder` or `Other`. This makes no difference.

Where am I going wrong, or is there something I have missed?

Many thanks for any help to be given.
Regards,
J.