Samsung Digital Boxes - VCR Connection
 

Ive got a new samsung digital box however when the box is connected to the video recorder & I switch the video recorder on I lose the digital tv picture if I switch the video off it comes back on. My connectionis as follows:

Settop to TV via Scart
Settop to Video via Scart

Any help gratefully recieved

Re: Samsung Digital Boxes - VCR Connection
 

1st thing that comes to my mind is the AV button

Re: Samsung Digital Boxes - VCR Connection
 

thank you , yes that was what I thought but even when I switch the av button so that it is off on the vcr there is stilll loss of digital chanels using the AV button on the TV. The video is not connected via scrat to the tv.

Re: Samsung Digital Boxes - VCR Connection
 

have you tuned your video in to the video?

is your connection like this?

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Re: Samsung Digital Boxes - VCR Connection
 

STB and Video using the same channel errmmm 36 i think? Try changing you VCR's output channel

Re: Samsung Digital Boxes - VCR Connection
 

What's happening is that your video is sending a picture through the SCART lead connected to it, which passes through the STB (as it's designed to) and then to the TV.

Most videos do this when you press "play" (which is what it's designed for), but some do it any time they're not on standby. There should be an option in the VCR menus to change this behavior.

Re: Samsung Digital Boxes - VCR Connection
 

Swap the 2 scart sockets over and It should be fine, AFAIK the samsung should work the same as the pace box and should have a VCR scart and a TV scart. This stops the tv switching the AV of the VCR whilst its recording etc.

However since I no longer work for ntl they may do things differently now?

HTH
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