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On the advice of posters here and another DVD site, I bought the Scart Switching Unit from Argos for under a tenner.

It works but one thing puzzles me:

If I plug the scart lead from the DVD player into the RGB socket in the switching unit, I get distortion of the picture - not clear and crisp as you would expect (sorry - as I expected). Plugging it in to one of the none RGB sockets gives a good picture.

Am I wrong in thinking that I should get a good picture using the RGB socket for the DVD player or am I doing something wrong?

The switching unit should enable all of the inputs to be RGB.

Is there a button to press to enable RGB, it sounds like you`re only
getting composite.

I`ve got one of the boxes that were sold in Index from about 3 years ago.
If the RGB button is not depressed, I get a fuzzy picture i.e. composite.

hope this helps.

Oh, is your DVD player setup to give RGB out?

Ste.

There are three inputs : Scart 1, Scart 2 and RGB/something

With the DVD (which does have RGB output) plugged in to the RGB socket, switching the RGB button on and off simply darkens and lightens the picture. Plugging it into S1 or 2 gives a good picture.

The DVD player is a JVC XV-N30BK (http://www.jvc.co.uk/product.php?id=XV-N30&catid=16&lid=)

I must admit, I thought all the sockets were capable of being RGB enabled, but there is an RGB switch to engage RGB. I don`t think it matters which sockets you use. Mine has three inputs and one output, although one input is intended for VCR, so not sure if that can be RGB enabled. In fact I think if you plug a non RGB unit in, and engage the RGB switch, you won`t get any picture at all.
When you enable RGB it does seem to darken the picture somewhat, but the colours should appear smoother and less fluorescent. Definitely to be preferred to composite.

I think a session trying all permutations is called for. A bit tedious but hopefully it will reveal the correct set-up.

Thanks chaps.

Got a Strand unit (3 scarts, phono and switches). However, with DVD on but switched to Digibox, I get the digibox sound and DVD image scrolling across. Is it me or is this a bit poor (to say the least).

I get the DVD image scrolling accross if I have the connections in a certain configuration. When I shift them about, the scrolling stops but I get the problem(s) mentioned above.