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nuffmon · 19-03-2006, 20:00

I understand what you mean and i use a standard TV. I'm totally confused as how you should set the box up and the support are non the wiser. Support say, and this is the way the old box was setup, connect video to tvdrive, and the tvdrive to the tv. Idea being that you turn on the video and the cable box allows it to bypass whilst still sending the pictures from the box to the video. TVdrive does nothing like this. For this to happen it needs to be plugged into the TV scart socket on the video so that a signal is sent to the cable box. Do this and the video pops up as it should. Change to the channel on the video and it is blank. It seems to me, if TVDrive detects a signal coming down the line it stops sending images down to the vcr socket. Absolutely useless, as if i plug it into the decoder socket on the video it doesn't bypass the TVDrive. I can't see the OSD of the video to see what the hell i am recording! Asked support....i got a long pause.
Ok, so i plug tv out on TVDrive to decoder socket on video and tv out on video to tv. Right, now it works but we get the menus and everything but not to worry. My first video (i actually mean dvdr/video combo) didn't like it, for some reason the signal to change the tv from 4:3 to 16:9 etc didn't work anymore. Either with video on or off....curious. So i back the video as i had only just bought it and get a Sony. Much better, now it works!.......but when i switch the video off the picture has horizontal blur. I change to composite on the TVDrive and everything is fine but slightly crap. At least it works.
The only real way to get around this is to connect the the TVdrive and video to the two scarts on the tv. Then connect the vcr socket on the TVDrive to the decoder socket on the video. This seems to work but im using an awful lot of scart to do the job.
Another strange thing about the vcr socket, the picture comes out without any changes to the aspect ratio on the tv. Struggled with this for ages then realised that my dvd recorder actually records everything in 4:3 so this arrangement seems to work with my setup, although it does seem a little strange.
Saying all this i love my TVDrive and wouldn't be without it. I think there are some improvements to be made on the tv guide which is just a bit of programming i suppose.

19-03-2006, 20:00	#4
nuffmon Inactive Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1	Re: TV Drive and VCR Scart quality I understand what you mean and i use a standard TV. I'm totally confused as how you should set the box up and the support are non the wiser. Support say, and this is the way the old box was setup, connect video to tvdrive, and the tvdrive to the tv. Idea being that you turn on the video and the cable box allows it to bypass whilst still sending the pictures from the box to the video. TVdrive does nothing like this. For this to happen it needs to be plugged into the TV scart socket on the video so that a signal is sent to the cable box. Do this and the video pops up as it should. Change to the channel on the video and it is blank. It seems to me, if TVDrive detects a signal coming down the line it stops sending images down to the vcr socket. Absolutely useless, as if i plug it into the decoder socket on the video it doesn't bypass the TVDrive. I can't see the OSD of the video to see what the hell i am recording! Asked support....i got a long pause. Ok, so i plug tv out on TVDrive to decoder socket on video and tv out on video to tv. Right, now it works but we get the menus and everything but not to worry. My first video (i actually mean dvdr/video combo) didn't like it, for some reason the signal to change the tv from 4:3 to 16:9 etc didn't work anymore. Either with video on or off....curious. So i back the video as i had only just bought it and get a Sony. Much better, now it works!.......but when i switch the video off the picture has horizontal blur. I change to composite on the TVDrive and everything is fine but slightly crap. At least it works. The only real way to get around this is to connect the the TVdrive and video to the two scarts on the tv. Then connect the vcr socket on the TVDrive to the decoder socket on the video. This seems to work but im using an awful lot of scart to do the job. Another strange thing about the vcr socket, the picture comes out without any changes to the aspect ratio on the tv. Struggled with this for ages then realised that my dvd recorder actually records everything in 4:3 so this arrangement seems to work with my setup, although it does seem a little strange. Saying all this i love my TVDrive and wouldn't be without it. I think there are some improvements to be made on the tv guide which is just a bit of programming i suppose.