sky setup with dvd recorder
 

I just purchased a new HDTV and a DVD recorder to add to Sky.

Sky box is one of those free to air Thomson boxes. It has 2 scarts
DVD recorder has 2 scarts
HDTV has 2 hdmi, 2 scart, component and vga.

Xbox 360 is connected to HDTV via component and that works fine.

I can setup sky to work perfectly in scart 1 on TV on its own.

Trouble is I am struggling to get the DVD recorder to recognise the sky
channels and I am not sure what I am doing.
What I think I am suppose to do is have DVD into scart 1 of TV and sky
plugged into DVD scart. But the DVD recorder is not picking up the sky
channels when I do a scan.

Also when I do the sky-dvd-tv option, I lose sound on sky.

Pulling hair out, can anyone please advise?

sky setup with dvd recorder
 

"Beck" [email protected] wrote in message
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I just purchased a new HDTV and a DVD recorder to add to Sky.

Sky box is one of those free to air Thomson boxes. It has 2 scarts
DVD recorder has 2 scarts
HDTV has 2 hdmi, 2 scart, component and vga.

Xbox 360 is connected to HDTV via component and that works fine.

I can setup sky to work perfectly in scart 1 on TV on its own.

Trouble is I am struggling to get the DVD recorder to recognise the sky
channels and I am not sure what I am doing.
What I think I am suppose to do is have DVD into scart 1 of TV and sky
plugged into DVD scart. But the DVD recorder is not picking up the sky
channels when I do a scan.

Also when I do the sky-dvd-tv option, I lose sound on sky.

Pulling hair out, can anyone please advise?

Just something else to add, I can view sky connected through the DVD
recorder (apart from sound) so I am pretty sure the connections are okay.
Its just I dont know how to get the DVDto pickup sky channels. When I go
into setup and look at channels, I see a little screen on the menu and it
just shows screen fuzz.

sky setup with dvd recorder
 

Beck schrieb:

"Beck" [email protected] wrote in message
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I just purchased a new HDTV and a DVD recorder to add to Sky.

Sky box is one of those free to air Thomson boxes. It has 2 scarts
DVD recorder has 2 scarts
HDTV has 2 hdmi, 2 scart, component and vga.

Xbox 360 is connected to HDTV via component and that works fine.

I can setup sky to work perfectly in scart 1 on TV on its own.

Trouble is I am struggling to get the DVD recorder to recognise the
sky channels and I am not sure what I am doing.
What I think I am suppose to do is have DVD into scart 1 of TV and sky
plugged into DVD scart. But the DVD recorder is not picking up the
sky channels when I do a scan.

Also when I do the sky-dvd-tv option, I lose sound on sky.

Pulling hair out, can anyone please advise?


Just something else to add, I can view sky connected through the DVD
recorder (apart from sound) so I am pretty sure the connections are
okay. Its just I dont know how to get the DVDto pickup sky channels.
When I go into setup and look at channels, I see a little screen on the
menu and it just shows screen fuzz.

Your DVD Recorder wont "pick up" any Sky channels. It has to be set to
AV1 AV2 or AV3 if your Digibox is connected via SCART...

sky setup with dvd recorder
 

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:27:09 -0000, "Beck" [email protected] wrote:

Sky box is one of those free to air Thomson boxes. It has 2 scarts

Free to Air Thomson box? Huh?

Is it definitely a Sky satellite box? Not a Freeview box or something
like that?

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"Stephen" wrote in message
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Your DVD Recorder wont "pick up" any Sky channels. It has to be set to AV1
AV2 or AV3 if your Digibox is connected via SCART...

Hmm I set the source to scart and the display stayed at DVD menu but the
screen went all smeary

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"Zero Tolerance" wrote in message
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On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:27:09 -0000, "Beck" [email protected] wrote:

Sky box is one of those free to air Thomson boxes. It has 2 scarts

Free to Air Thomson box? Huh?

Is it definitely a Sky satellite box? Not a Freeview box or something
like that?

Yeah its a Thomson. You know the Sky you can buy for one off payment and
you get basic channels but no subscription

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"Stephen" wrote in message
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Your DVD Recorder wont "pick up" any Sky channels. It has to be set to AV1
AV2 or AV3 if your Digibox is connected via SCART...

Well I finally sorted but have a weird setup now but its functional and
everything is working.
Somehow even though I am using scart, the DVD recorder won't allow a good
picture unless I pick component even though component is not being used by
it.

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Beck wrote:

"Stephen" wrote in message
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Your DVD Recorder wont "pick up" any Sky channels. It has to be set to AV1
AV2 or AV3 if your Digibox is connected via SCART...

Well I finally sorted but have a weird setup now but its functional and
everything is working.
Somehow even though I am using scart, the DVD recorder won't allow a good
picture unless I pick component even though component is not being used by
it.

Through scart from sky you use tv out into the rgb ready scart socket
on your recorder, IF it is rgb compatible. It may have a setting you
need to switch to rgb but hopefully, if both scart sockets on the
recorder are rgb then you'll get the best picture. One way of telling
if it is working is when you switch the AV on the tv one of them, the
one with the dvd running rgb through it, should show an arrow with
three little dots. another test is to put the sky box into its
settings and look at the little arrows between boxes. if they're
blurred or seem to flicker then it's not running rgb.

sorry if that all sounds confusing, I'm still getting used to all this
myself. sometimes it takes a bit of juggling round the cables before
you get tings just right.
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"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
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Through scart from sky you use tv out into the rgb ready scart socket
on your recorder, IF it is rgb compatible. It may have a setting you
need to switch to rgb but hopefully, if both scart sockets on the
recorder are rgb then you'll get the best picture. One way of telling
if it is working is when you switch the AV on the tv one of them, the
one with the dvd running rgb through it, should show an arrow with
three little dots. another test is to put the sky box into its
settings and look at the little arrows between boxes. if they're
blurred or seem to flicker then it's not running rgb.

sorry if that all sounds confusing, I'm still getting used to all this
myself. sometimes it takes a bit of juggling round the cables before
you get tings just right.

I tried RGB but the picture went greenish. Need to tweak the settings
probably. I know the TV accepts RGB so it must be something else within the
DVD setup.

sky setup with dvd recorder
 

Beck wrote:

"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
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Through scart from sky you use tv out into the rgb ready scart socket
on your recorder, IF it is rgb compatible. It may have a setting you
need to switch to rgb but hopefully, if both scart sockets on the
recorder are rgb then you'll get the best picture. One way of telling
if it is working is when you switch the AV on the tv one of them, the
one with the dvd running rgb through it, should show an arrow with
three little dots. another test is to put the sky box into its
settings and look at the little arrows between boxes. if they're
blurred or seem to flicker then it's not running rgb.

sorry if that all sounds confusing, I'm still getting used to all this
myself. sometimes it takes a bit of juggling round the cables before
you get tings just right.

I tried RGB but the picture went greenish. Need to tweak the settings
probably. I know the TV accepts RGB so it must be something else within the
DVD setup.

yep, sounds that way, or possibly a faulty scart lead? Like I said,
I'm not 100% on this. funnily enough it sounds like the old complaint
against the ps2 doesn't it?

Make sure the socket you're using on the tv is for RGB in, oh, and I
think the scart has to be a fully wired one. but yes, check those
settings and also the sky box settings, I think it needs scart
switched on and the thing set to RGB and not PAL.

--
Paul (Need a lift she said much obliged)
-------------------------------------------------------
Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/

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"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
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yep, sounds that way, or possibly a faulty scart lead? Like I said,
I'm not 100% on this. funnily enough it sounds like the old complaint
against the ps2 doesn't it?

Make sure the socket you're using on the tv is for RGB in, oh, and I
think the scart has to be a fully wired one. but yes, check those
settings and also the sky box settings, I think it needs scart
switched on and the thing set to RGB and not PAL.

To be honest I think it is an old crappy scart cable and probably not RGB
one. But its working with the DVD set to component which is very strange
but its all working. You don't think it will break the picture will it?

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Beck wrote:

"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
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yep, sounds that way, or possibly a faulty scart lead? Like I said,
I'm not 100% on this. funnily enough it sounds like the old complaint
against the ps2 doesn't it?

Make sure the socket you're using on the tv is for RGB in, oh, and I
think the scart has to be a fully wired one. but yes, check those
settings and also the sky box settings, I think it needs scart
switched on and the thing set to RGB and not PAL.

To be honest I think it is an old crappy scart cable and probably not RGB
one. But its working with the DVD set to component which is very strange
but its all working. You don't think it will break the picture will it?

don't think so... hey any port in a storm :O)
--
Paul (Need a lift she said much obliged)
-------------------------------------------------------
Stop and Look
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"Alan Pemberton" wrote in message
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If you feed a component ('YUV' or 'YPbPr') signal into an RGB tv you get
a greenish picture. You must make sure your source is also set to output
RGB into the scart lead.

This is what is making this complicated for me. I am not feeding a
component signal into it.
It is connected by scart. Its when I select RGB it goes green, even though
I have a good solid scart cable which I am certain feeds RGB. Its something
either on the TV, the digibox or the DVD recorder which is wrong but I
cannot work out what to do. I should be able to select RGB and be done but
its not happening.
If I use scart and select component as the source, then I get a good
picture. I cannot work it out.

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"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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Good picture with the correct colours? If so it sounds very much like
that it is outputing RGB when you select component, and vice versa.

Good picture, correct colours, everything normal what it should be.
Myabe the DVD menu is wrong and what is listed as component is RGB and what
is listed as RGB is component.
If I selected the real component through scart leads would that give me the
greenish hue to the screen?

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Beck wrote:

If I use scart and select component as the source, then I get a good
picture.

Probably a fault in the DVD player's firmware or wiring. It is
probably doing the opposite of what you are setting it for.

I saw one like that once.

Set it to what works and don't worry about it.

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No monies return'd. ;-)

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"Jomtien" wrote in message
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Beck wrote:

If I use scart and select component as the source, then I get a good
picture.

Probably a fault in the DVD player's firmware or wiring. It is
probably doing the opposite of what you are setting it for.

I saw one like that once.

Set it to what works and don't worry about it.

Thanks, that is what I was thinking later last night. Just a simple menu
problem.
My worry was only that setting it to the wrong thing could harm the picture
in the long run, but if that is not the case then I will not worry about it.

sky setup with dvd recorder
 

Beck wrote:

"Jomtien" wrote in message
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Beck wrote:

If I use scart and select component as the source, then I get a good
picture.

Probably a fault in the DVD player's firmware or wiring. It is
probably doing the opposite of what you are setting it for.

I saw one like that once.

Set it to what works and don't worry about it.

Thanks, that is what I was thinking later last night. Just a simple menu
problem.
My worry was only that setting it to the wrong thing could harm the picture
in the long run, but if that is not the case then I will not worry about it.

the only thing I would really worry about is that the recordings are
okay. Best test for this would be to record on yours from sky and then
playback on a different setup, see that the quality is up to par.

--
Paul (Need a lift she said much obliged)
-------------------------------------------------------
Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/

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"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
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the only thing I would really worry about is that the recordings are
okay. Best test for this would be to record on yours from sky and then
playback on a different setup, see that the quality is up to par.

I did a little test when I set it up and the recordings seem okay, certainly
no problems as far as I can see.

sky setup with dvd recorder
 

Beck wrote:

"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
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the only thing I would really worry about is that the recordings are
okay. Best test for this would be to record on yours from sky and then
playback on a different setup, see that the quality is up to par.

I did a little test when I set it up and the recordings seem okay, certainly
no problems as far as I can see.

then smile and be happy :O)
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Paul (Need a lift she said much obliged)
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