gmann(Harmless) posted this on Wednesday, 25th December 2002, 18:50
Hi, Help! I have a tv with 2 scarts. Both are used by a vidio recorder and a sky satelite box. I am trying to connect my new DVD player (Toshiba SD220e ) I have bought a 3 way scart splitter box.This is an auto switching box, so when one is on the other is off. How can i connect this setup so i can record with the vidio. At the moment, when the vidio is switched on to record sky, the picture is not watchable.I presume this is because 2 devices are switched on at once. How can i get over this? Any help would be gratfully receved. Cheers Guy
RE: Connecting with a lack of scarts
geoff g.(Competent) posted this on Wednesday, 25th December 2002, 19:30
i would put your digibox and vcr on the same scart i.e scart 1, from digibox scart to t.v then from digibox decoder/ av to vcr input/output scart. then you have a spare scart on tv. use that for dvd.if you want to record from dvd to vcr. then it is more difficult. i have a switching box but you have to carefull has some are not compatible with rgb. when using a switching box make sure that either the digibox or the dvd is on standby. otherwise you will have no picture from one of the devices. i have a scart with a built in macovision buster to my dvd/ and digibox, so i can copy dvd`s and sky box office and it all works ok.
RE: Connecting with a lack of scarts
john-306(Competent) posted this on Wednesday, 25th December 2002, 20:51
Feed your Skybox through your video then into TV with scarts, this gives a loop through when the video is off, this also allows recording of Sky and playing back off video. Remaining scart direct from DVD.
RE: Connecting with a lack of scarts
gmann(Harmless) posted this on Thursday, 26th December 2002, 18:19
Sorry, im being thick here. Please explain again. I have AV1 on the tv connected to the splitter I have vidio av 1 into the splitter I have vidio av 2 into vcr on the sky box i have sky tv into the splitter DVD into av 2 on the tv. Can i do without the splitter as this darkens the picture and gives me the problem of recording. If not how do i connect. Thanks for your patience guys Guy
RE: Connecting with a lack of scarts
john-306(Competent) posted this on Thursday, 26th December 2002, 22:19
I`ve only got 2 scarts on my TV and don`t use a splitter. DVD is fed directly to AV1 on TV. Sky box is fed into Video input and Video output fed into TVs AV2.
When video is on standby you get a direct loopthrough to your TV from Sky box. When video is on you obviously get the ability to record from Sky.
Hope this helps.
RE: Connecting with a lack of scarts
gmann(Harmless) posted this on Friday, 27th December 2002, 15:48
