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Old 28-01-2008, 19:59   #1
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Help with scart connections for AV devices please...
Hi all,

I can't figure out what is doing this and hope someone might have some idea...

Here's the setup...

Cable box has 2 scart outputs:
TV one goes to AV1 on the TV
VCR one goes to input on the DVD recorder

DVD recorder has 2 scart connections:
Input from the Cable box
TV one goes straight to AV2 on the TV.

If I select source on the DVD recorder as SCART then it shows cable.
With the DVD player switched on I see cable on both AV1 and AV2...

If I switch the DVD recorder off, I only get cable on AV2, not AV1 which is the direct connection from the cable box to the TV??!

I also tried switching over the scart cables plugged into the back of the cable box. The result was on AV1 (set to RGB) I got a red picture but it stayed on when the DVD player was switched off...

Any ideas on what the problem is? Is it likely to be a config setting on the TV or something?
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Old 28-01-2008, 20:14   #2
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Hi all,

I can't figure out what is doing this and hope someone might have some idea...

Here's the setup...

Cable box has 2 scart outputs:
TV one goes to AV1 on the TV
VCR one goes to input on the DVD recorder

DVD recorder has 2 scart connections:
Input from the Cable box
TV one goes straight to AV2 on the TV.

If I select source on the DVD recorder as SCART then it shows cable.
With the DVD player switched on I see cable on both AV1 and AV2...

If I switch the DVD recorder off, I only get cable on AV2, not AV1 which is the direct connection from the cable box to the TV??!

I also tried switching over the scart cables plugged into the back of the cable box. The result was on AV1 (set to RGB) I got a red picture but it stayed on when the DVD player was switched off...

Any ideas on what the problem is? Is it likely to be a config setting on the TV or something?
the post has confused me a little but i seem to remember that if you open up the scarts from the set top and cut the wire going to pin8 you might be ok
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Old 28-01-2008, 20:24   #3
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Re: Help with scart connections for AV devices please...
Cool, cheers. Don't think I'd have figured that out myself. What purpose does Pin 8 serve then? Is that for detecting active devices?
I'll have a go at that...
Does it need to be both scarts connected to the box?

I've got it working ok now with the direct connection to AV1 on the TV coming from the 'VCR' scart output on the cable box as opposed to the TV output. Changing AV1 in the TV settings to Video as opposed to RGB gives a colour picture.
Not sure if there's that much of a big difference from Video to RGB...
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Cool, cheers. Don't think I'd have figured that out myself. What purpose does Pin 8 serve then? Is that for detecting active devices?
I'll have a go at that...
Does it need to be both scarts connected to the box?

I've got it working ok now with the direct connection to AV1 on the TV coming from the 'VCR' scart output on the cable box as opposed to the TV output. Changing AV1 in the TV settings to Video as opposed to RGB gives a colour picture.
Not sure if there's that much of a big difference from Video to RGB...
pin 8 is (i think) for auto-switching,but you can now set the boxes to auto-detect off or on.
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