Digibox - DVD recorder - TV

eirebhoy

What is the best way to connect the following equipment together:

Sony TV (2 Scarts)
Philips DVD recorder (2 Scarts)
Pace Digibox (TV scart and VCR scart)

At the moment I have the NTL cable to the DVD recorder.
An antenna cable from my DVD recorder's TV output socket to the antenna input socket on the TV.
A scart going from EXT1 socket on the DVD recorder to the scart socket labelled 1 on the TV.
A scart from my Digibox's TV scart the scart socket labelled 2 on the TV.

Would it be better to connect my digibox to the DVD recorder or would this even work at all?

Cheers.

taung

Well, I'm not aware of the vagaries of PACE Digiboxes, but, I'd guess that unless there is some Macrovision copy protection on the Digibox you'd be better off connecting it to the second SCART on the recorder (assuming you want to record satellite programmes).

At the moment you have no way of recording satellite programmes, right?

ShaneOC

I would imagine that the DVD recorder would have pass through. If it is on you will see it, if it is off (standby) you will see the digibox.

Connect Digibox TV Scart to DVD Recorder Scart (In)

Connect DVD Recorded Scart (Out) to TV.

eirebhoy

Cheers.

weehamster

Here how it should be.

Sony TV scart 1 (this should be a RGB input)
Plug scart from the Sky box from TV out to the Sony
Then in you Sky menus go to 'services',
then 4 - 'system setup',
then 1 - 'Picture'. Here change the video output to RGB and you should have a far better picture.
While you are there, you can change the Picture Format to what ever youer TV is, ie widescreen 16:9 or standard 4:3 or standard 4:3 with widescreen letterbox. Dont forget to save settings)

Sony TV scart 2
Plug the scart from TV out on the DVD recorder into the Sony

Next a scart from the video out of the Sky box to the video input of the DVD recorder.

The aerial/cable should go into the Sky receiver then out from the Sky into DVD recorder and out from the DVD to the TV. This will allow you to use the 2nd aerial output on the back on the Sky box. This is so you can watch Sky as well as the Aerial/Cable on another TV in a different room. Im afraid you cant watch a DVD in a different room.

ixtlan

weehamster's setup is probably what you will have to do, but you might give some consideration to his comment that RGB is better (which it is) and ShaneOC's comment that the DVD recorder might have passthrough, as some complex arrangement of wiring might give a better picture...

One scenario... if the DVD out can act as an in... you connect it to the VCR out on the digibox, (no RGB out on the VCR port, but it can pass through an incoming RGB signal) and it plays back in RGB passing through the digibox, out through the TV port on the digibox.

Or even better if the DVD has pass-through and you connect the digibox tv out into the DVD in (for RGB recording) and it's TV scart to ext 1 on the TV, and hope that the RGB signal from the digibox will get to the TV...

Both these scenarios might allow you to have RGB output from the digibox and the DVD player... option 2 might allow RGB recording too..

Ix.

weehamster

A Sky didgibox has a RGB pass through