I have a PVR and a DVD Recorder and want them connected together for archving purposes. They each have the following inputs/outputs:
PVR
RGB SCART
S-Video SCART
3xRCA (CVBS, OUT-only)
DVD Recorder
RGB SCART IN
S-Video IN
CVBS IN
RGB SCART OUT
S-Video OUT
CVBS OUT
Now, normally it would be a simple case of PVR RGB SCART -> DVD Recorder RGB SCART IN[]RGB SCART OUT -> TV
However, the recorder doesn't support RGB passthrough, which means I'd have to leave it on all the time. But even doing that, the picture quality isn't good; it's hard to describe what it's like, but there is a noticeable drop in quality when I watch an RGB source via the DVD recorder.
At the moment, I have it connected up as DVD Recorder -> PVR -> TV, with the CVBS output on the PVR being fed into the CVBS input on the DVD recorder which, naturally, gives a poor quality recording.
So can anyone think of a way of getting the RGB output from the PVR into both my TV and DVD recorder at the same time?
(Oh, I also tried one of those SCART switch units that allows you to divert a source to more than one output, but that only supports RGB on the one [TV] socket. And when I tried settling for S-Video, I got a horrible blue tinge on the TV even with the recorder switched off.)
PVR
RGB SCART
S-Video SCART
3xRCA (CVBS, OUT-only)
DVD Recorder
RGB SCART IN
S-Video IN
CVBS IN
RGB SCART OUT
S-Video OUT
CVBS OUT
Now, normally it would be a simple case of PVR RGB SCART -> DVD Recorder RGB SCART IN[]RGB SCART OUT -> TV
However, the recorder doesn't support RGB passthrough, which means I'd have to leave it on all the time. But even doing that, the picture quality isn't good; it's hard to describe what it's like, but there is a noticeable drop in quality when I watch an RGB source via the DVD recorder.
At the moment, I have it connected up as DVD Recorder -> PVR -> TV, with the CVBS output on the PVR being fed into the CVBS input on the DVD recorder which, naturally, gives a poor quality recording.
So can anyone think of a way of getting the RGB output from the PVR into both my TV and DVD recorder at the same time?
(Oh, I also tried one of those SCART switch units that allows you to divert a source to more than one output, but that only supports RGB on the one [TV] socket. And when I tried settling for S-Video, I got a horrible blue tinge on the TV even with the recorder switched off.)