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OK - I`m a muppet.

I have stupidly wasted money on a sanyo (aaarrrrggghh) 32" 16:9 tv, and the bloomin` thing has only one scart with s-vid OR RGB input.
ie AV1 is either - RGB OR composite OR S-video.. weird eh?
AV2 and 3 are composite only

so - I want to connect a panasonic digibox on RGB mode and a pioneer NSDV55 dvd player on S-video mode to one socket. At present this involves me hitting a scart switching box, then going through a menu to switch AV1 from or to s-video. a pain.

so - a much neater solution (as my telly is hanging by thin wire from the ceiling...) is to have one scart cable going to the av1. but this means connecting the sky to the dvd. the dvd only has composite or svideo inputs.

any ideas on how to connect an rgb sky box to an svideo in? or should i go the other way and convert an svideo out from the dvd to an rgb in for the digibox, then an rgb out from the digibox to the tv.

does any of this make sense? :-)

I have a TV with a single scart socket, a DVD player with a single scart socket, Sky Digibox (2 scarts) and a video (2 scarts). Have them all conected together fine. Here is how I have done it.

1. The video is the only device connected to the TV via video scart 1.
2. The Sky box connects to the other video scart which allows me to record from sky :-)
3. The dvd player plugs into the other scart socket on the sky box.

If you do this make sure you have the RGB option set in picture settings on the sky box.

This solution works well even with the video on stand by.

Hope this helps.

John.

Just double check that about the Sanyo. I rent a 28 incher (28WN3) and only AV1 is RGB enabled, and only AV2 is S-VID enabled : their manuals are complete pants so I would double check that, mate

yes - i have triple checked. i have a 32wP3 (not N...)

i also phoned them. in the setup it allows av1 to be switchd to svid, and thats it.

as for the other suggestion, i have it set up similar - i have the dvd going to the sky, from the sky to the tv (av1) [btw - sorry about crap typing - waterproof laptop keyboard is horrible]. this alows all viewing - excpt to watch a dvd i have to switch off sky :-(

vid is connected to av2 - which gives `monitor out` in composite - my vid can only deal with comp... so i can record whatever im watching, or using the second scart on the vid i can record another vid.

the only thing i think that i could use is a high quality scart at one end, with two wires comin off to a svid on one and a scart on the other...

Guy

1. The video is the only device connected to the TV via video scart 1.
2. The Sky box connects to the other video scart which allows me to record from sky :-)
3. The dvd player plugs into the other scart socket on the sky box.

Does that actually work, I thought both scarts on sky digiboxes where output only.....there`s no way to select pass through ?????

yes it does. i have much the same set up at the moment. the vcr socket is a pass through (on or off) in the sky box. it will PASS a svid or RGB signal.

the problem with this type of set up is that the sky box has to be off to play a dvd as svid does not have a data signal (ie the sky box does not know that the dvd has started playing) and buggers up the signal completely. not a total pain, but this set up isnt QYIT hat im trying to achieve.
Guy