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?

"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.

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...

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

"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

"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.

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

"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.

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)
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Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/