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Old 20-11-2007, 07:42
The_Undertaker
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Hi JUST REALISED the title should be "CONNECTION"
ah im too tired, anyways
I was having a go last night and now i am puzzled as to what I'm doing.. I am not expert nor novice

Is this at all possible, to connect tv, sky, dvd recorder and vhs recorder at the same time. vhs and dvd recorder is recorded from sky.

Basically ive got panasonic 32" flat screen tv with 2 scarts in the back and 1 in the front (red,white,yellow)

VHS panasonic got 2 (dodgy) scarts in the back

sky got 2 scarts (1 says TV and VIDEO)

dvd recorder got 2 scarts (NO MARKING)

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previous i only had dvd player, and the connection to that was simply

tv-sky (main thick scart)
sky-video (main thick scart)
dvd - tv (red white n yellow scart)

that allowed me to watch sky on av1 and dvd on av3

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now that i've got dvd recorder.. its not the same connection is it? or is it?

any suggestions would help please
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Old 20-11-2007, 09:23
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Think about it - you want your Sky box to feed three separate things - your TV, your VCR, and your DVDR. Now Sky has four outputs - RF, two scarts and s-video. Sky HD has six outputs - the four already mentioned, plus HDMI and component.

If your TV or your DVD recorder will accept s-video input, then you can use that output from your Sky box, leaving the two scarts on the Sky box to feed the other two pieces of kit.

Also, if your DVD recorder supports component output, and your TV accepts component input (most HD Ready ones do nowadays), then you can use that method to connect your DVDR to your TV. Leaving the two scarts free for the Sky box and the VCR.

The red, white and yellow input on the front of the TV are presumably composite TV and audio inputs - again, a lot of DVD recorders support this as output, so you might get away with connecting your DVDR to your TV in that manner - but the picture won't be as good as it would be through RGB scart.

Your VCR should not need connecting directly to your TV using scart, as long as it is connected to the VCR scart socket on your Sky box. This will allow it to record Sky (because when Sky is playing and the VCR is recording, the signal goes out of the Sky box and into the VCR via this scart connection). Conversely, when the video is playing a tape, the signal goes in the opposite direction, from VCR to Sky, then the Sky box will send this signal via its TV output to the TV. It really depends whether you will ever want to record Sky to videotape anymore, given that you now own a DVD recorder. And also, how often are you going to watch videotape from now on, and if you are, does it still need connecting to your TV via scart, or can you get away with just using an RF aerial connection to watch your old poor quality video tapes?
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Old 20-11-2007, 10:10
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Hi JUST REALISED the title should be "CONNECTION"
ah im too tired, anyways
I was having a go last night and now i am puzzled as to what I'm doing.. I am not expert nor novice

Is this at all possible, to connect tv, sky, dvd recorder and vhs recorder at the same time. vhs and dvd recorder is recorded from sky.

Basically ive got panasonic 32" flat screen tv with 2 scarts in the back and 1 in the front (red,white,yellow)

VHS panasonic got 2 (dodgy) scarts in the back

sky got 2 scarts (1 says TV and VIDEO)

dvd recorder got 2 scarts (NO MARKING)

----

previous i only had dvd player, and the connection to that was simply

tv-sky (main thick scart)
sky-video (main thick scart)
dvd - tv (red white n yellow scart)

that allowed me to watch sky on av1 and dvd on av3

----

now that i've got dvd recorder.. its not the same connection is it? or is it?

any suggestions would help please
You don't say what your DVD recorder is but assuming it has RGB record and feed through connect all as follows.

VCR -> Sky VCR scart
Sky TV scart -> DVDR in scart (AV2 on Pannys, see manual for others)
DVDR out scart (AV1 on Panny) -> TV RGB in scart (prob scart 1)

Ensure all inputs/outputs are RGB where applicanle (obviously not the VCR).

Also if the DVDR does HDMI or component you might want to connect that up.

With this system you can watch any of VCR, Sky and DVD all on the one TV scart in RGB when applicable. You can record from VCR and Sky to DVD and Sky to VCR. You cannot record DVD to VCR (why would you want to?).
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Old 20-11-2007, 10:15
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Using bobcar's method, you also cannot watch Sky if you are recording anything other than Sky on your DVDR.
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Old 20-11-2007, 17:38
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Using bobcar's method, you also cannot watch Sky if you are recording anything other than Sky on your DVDR.
You can record off the tuner (digital or analogue) on the DVDR (at least you can with Pannys, I can't vouch for others). The only thing missing is recording off the VCR whilst watching something else which you can easily do overnight if required.

For most people the benefits of this method of connection (ease of use and quality of recording) far outweigh the minor disadvantages. Having a DVD recorder and not using RGB is perverse.
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Old 21-11-2007, 08:07
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Hey somehow got it working, asked someone from tech guys digi department to explain it throughly lol

tv-dvd
dvd-sky
video-tv

somehow it works.. yayy
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