Sky installed last week

Paul Heslop wrote:

So you are one of the believers in sending the signal through the box?
I think if you had bothered to check ALL of my comments to the OP you
would have noticed I suggested that you could do this too, but that i
couldn't really say whether it worked as I had never done it.

"you are supposed to be able to wire up the vcr to run through the sky
box but I've neverdone this deliberately."

I've done this thousands of times. It works perfectly with ALL scart
equipment that isn't faulty.

It is the only procedure that will ALWAYS work correctly, with
equipment that isn't faulty.

It is also the procedure that is described in the Sky manual.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/8vef5
UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
BBC/ITV reception trouble? ; http://www.astra2d.com/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)

Paul Heslop wrote:

he still basically slagged off my replies, when all I was doing was
trying to help someone.

If you had read the FAQ you would have learnt the correct way of
connecting these devices up (guaranteed to work perfectly every time
if the equipment isn't faulty).

When I see a post that says "the sun rises in the West" the only way I
can respond is by saying "no, it doesn't". There are no two ways about
this, however helpful the poster is trying to be. Saying this is not
slagging anyone off.

Scart connections are the same: there is only one way to do it
correctly. All other ways are wrong.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/8vef5
UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
BBC/ITV reception trouble? ; http://www.astra2d.com/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)

Vaughan wrote:

You have this very annoying habit of making unhelpful and curt posts
bordering on rudeness. Making obscure definitive statements like the one
above, with no further explanation, is utterly pointless.

Either explain what you mean or don't bother posting.

A shame you missed this post before spouting off:



You can apologise whenever you like.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/8vef5
UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
BBC/ITV reception trouble? ; http://www.astra2d.com/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)

Jomtien wrote:

Paul Heslop wrote:

So you are one of the believers in sending the signal through the box?
I think if you had bothered to check ALL of my comments to the OP you
would have noticed I suggested that you could do this too, but that i
couldn't really say whether it worked as I had never done it.

"you are supposed to be able to wire up the vcr to run through the sky
box but I've neverdone this deliberately."

I've done this thousands of times. It works perfectly with ALL scart
equipment that isn't faulty.

It is the only procedure that will ALWAYS work correctly, with
equipment that isn't faulty.

It is also the procedure that is described in the Sky manual.

yes. whatever you say.


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Paul (Please dont take a picture)
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Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/

Jomtien wrote:

Paul Heslop wrote:

he still basically slagged off my replies, when all I was doing was
trying to help someone.

If you had read the FAQ you would have learnt the correct way of
connecting these devices up (guaranteed to work perfectly every time
if the equipment isn't faulty).

When I see a post that says "the sun rises in the West" the only way I
can respond is by saying "no, it doesn't". There are no two ways about
this, however helpful the poster is trying to be. Saying this is not
slagging anyone off.

Scart connections are the same: there is only one way to do it
correctly. All other ways are wrong.

There are ways of saying and doing things, Jomtien, and the best way
to put a person off trying to help people is to bluntly contradict
what they have said.

There are reasons I do things the way I do them.

--
Paul (Please dont take a picture)
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Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/

Jomtien wrote:

Vaughan wrote:

You have this very annoying habit of making unhelpful and curt posts
bordering on rudeness. Making obscure definitive statements like the one
above, with no further explanation, is utterly pointless.

Either explain what you mean or don't bother posting.

A shame you missed this post before spouting off:



You can apologise whenever you like.

likewise


--
Paul (Please dont take a picture)
-------------------------------------------------------
Stop and Look
http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/

The RF leads should go from the antenna to the VCR to the TV only.
They should not be connected to the digibox.


Not always - I run the aerial lead into the Sky box, then out of the Sky box
and into my Media Center PC - thus bringing with it all the terrestrial
channels and adding the satellite channel to the mix. There is no scart on
the PC, so that is the only way to bring all the signals in.

D.

David Wright wrote:

The RF leads should go from the antenna to the VCR to the TV only.
They should not be connected to the digibox.

Not always - I run the aerial lead into the Sky box, then out of the Sky box
and into my Media Center PC - thus bringing with it all the terrestrial
channels and adding the satellite channel to the mix. There is no scart on
the PC, so that is the only way to bring all the signals in.

Perhaps you didn't see this:

Never, unless you have a second distant TV.

immediately above the part you quoted.

The thread was referring to scart installations, of course, and with
the absence of scart connections your PC counts as a second distant
TV.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/8vef5
UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
BBC/ITV reception trouble? ; http://www.astra2d.com/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)

Jomtien wrote:
Paul Heslop wrote:

Correct me if I am wrong but don't you connect the Sky box to the
video recorder (I have not got round to recordable DVD yet.) and
then run a connection from the video recorder to the TV ?

IF you have two scarts on the VCR you take sky into the video scart
marked decoder/cable etc and the other scart into your tv.

No, you don't.

In all cases the connections are as follows:

VCR scart 1 = digibox "VCR" scart socket
Digibox "TV" scart socket = TV scart 1.

Why all cases? This is certainly a simple solution, but isn't the problem
here the fact that you wouldn't be able to record RGB from the Sky box? The
box's 'VCR' scart is not RGB enabled as far as I know (willing/hoping to be
proved wrong!).

Mike Henry wrote:
In , "DannyT"
wrote:

Jomtien wrote:
Paul Heslop wrote:

Correct me if I am wrong but don't you connect the Sky box to the
video recorder (I have not got round to recordable DVD yet.) and
then run a connection from the video recorder to the TV ?

IF you have two scarts on the VCR you take sky into the video scart
marked decoder/cable etc and the other scart into your tv.

No, you don't.

In all cases the connections are as follows:

VCR scart 1 = digibox "VCR" scart socket
Digibox "TV" scart socket = TV scart 1.

Why all cases? This is certainly a simple solution, but isn't the
problem here the fact that you wouldn't be able to record RGB from
the Sky box?

It's "all cases" for VCRs, because all VCRs can record composite and
no VCRs record RGB.

The
box's 'VCR' scart is not RGB enabled as far as I know
(willing/hoping to be proved wrong!).

The VCR SCART socket on the digibox accepts RGB and composite as INPUT
for PASSTHROUGH, but it only outputs composite. Given that the output
of the VCR SCART socket is only going to be used for a VCR, the
connections above are the best to use and give RGB output to the TV
for live viewing.

Thanks for clarifying that. So Paul Heslop's suggestions in this thread are
perfectly valid, in particular for those with DVD recorders which can record
RGB from external devices.