[WestLondoner99]

Dumb question - the title says it all; I was recording a programme off Freeview with the Freeview box connected to a VCR via SCART.

Dissatisfied with the live picture on the screen, I substituted the main TV with a 14" portable to see if it was any better. As it wasn't, I switched them back.

On playing the video tape later, there were two periods of rolling white lines against a black screen during the programme (presumably co-inciding with the switching of the TVs)

But if the VCR and Freeview were connected throughout, I don't see why the recording was interrupted.

Any theories?

[A-Friend]

Can you tell us the exact connections? Including the RF/coax connections. Also, were you watching and recording the same programme? Via the same freeview box?

[WestLondoner99]

yes, watching the same programme. A bog-standard old-style set-up with a TV, VCR and Freeview box. Aerial into Freeview. Freeview connected to TV via SCART, and to VCR via another SCART. RF connector loops the analogue signal through Freeview to VCR to TV.

I was without use of the Freeview box for 3 weeks and on using it again find the picture more "cheap and nasty" than I remember it as being, hence the tinkering.

On this occasion, the TV was swapped with another and the SCART and RF connectors were taken out of the back of one TV and put into another - which logically shouldn't interrupt a recording into the VCR's L1 SCART.