Re: Frustrated button-pushing!
- From: Terry Pinnell <terrypin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:54:05 +0100
Dominic <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Terry Pinnell <terrypin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
and again.) During all these attempts, whenever I returned to a
programme on the TV, it was showing one of these: 'AV1', 'AV1/RGB',
'EC1/RGB'. What exactly are each of these, and is one to be preferred?
Anyway, I *thought* that the list also included 'VCR', but now I'm not
sure, because - to my great eventual relief - with 'VCR' displayed on
the TV (while on a SKY programme), I finally got to my VCR menu! FWIW,
when I used Display I got 'VCR Mono Ch 35' - again, baffling to me.
The VCR is only connected through the RF aerial lead, so you need to
set the tv to whatever channel number preset is set to the VCR's
frequency (ch35). Tried selecting channel 0 on the TV?
The Sky box is connected to the TV through a scart lead. As soon as
you switch on the sky box, it will send a signal through the scart lead
for the TV to switch to the scart (AV) input. You should be able to
switch the TV back to its tuner by selecting a channel on the TV.
So my guess would be... turn on tv, sky box, and vcr. Select normal
tv tuner, probably by pressing a channel number, or TV/AV button,
possibly several times to cycle through the different inputs (until it
shows a channel number rather than AV1 etc.).
The VCR is probably on channel 0, so select channel 0. The TV
will now be displaying the signal from the VCR, which may be
the sky box (via the VCR's 'E2' input), or the vcr's own tuner.
Press menu or whatever on the VCR, and proceed.
Oh - AV1 is probably composite video via the scart, AV1/RGB is
probably the RGB signal inputs in the same scart (AV is Audio/Video).
Don't know what EC1 would be. Possibly a second scart? If AV1/RGB
(or EC1/RGB) displays the sky box, it'll probably be the best quality.
Might have to switch on RGB output in a sky box menu somewhere
though. Perhaps.
dom.
p.s. fwiw... about the only time I tried to record from my freesat sky
box, connected via scart leads all the way, I gave up. As I recall, it
worked, but was recording the tv's scart *output*. Not very helpful
when I wanted to watch something on another channel at the same
time. Re-arranged connections (got dvd recorder) since then, but
not yet found anything to record anyway. uknova...
Many thanks Dominic, that's really helpful. I'll come back if I lose
the plot again!
--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
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