Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and video
recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.

Dave

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:40:08 +0000, Dave
wrote:

Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and video
recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.

Dave

Probably uk.media.tv.misc or you might be better trying one of the
various Forums ( websites) that specialise in such matters .Can't
recall any offhand at the moment tho'
When you say dvd rewriter I presume you mean dvd recorder as rewriter
usually refers to one on a PC
Stuart

Stuart B wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:40:08 +0000, Dave
wrote:


Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and video
recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.

Dave


Probably uk.media.tv.misc or you might be better trying one of the
various Forums ( websites) that specialise in such matters .Can't
recall any offhand at the moment tho'
When you say dvd rewriter I presume you mean dvd recorder as rewriter
usually refers to one on a PC

Yes, I do, but I regard any DVD drive that can use re-writables as a
re-writer. Sorry.

Many thanks for the ng. I will put it in my newsgroups listing.

Dave

Dave wrote:
Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and
video recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.

This might help.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/consumer/connection_wizard.html

Peter Crosland

Peter Crosland wrote:

Dave wrote:

Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and
video recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.


This might help.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/consumer/connection_wizard.html

Thanks Peter, but I want the wife to be able to record freeview on the
dvd re-recorder. The problem I have right now, is that if I power up the
digi box, all is fine. When I power up the DVD re-recorder, it swamps
the TV with the signal that is coming from the digi box. They are all
scart connected.
I am thinking that a video recorder that is switched off, might buffer
the digi signal out, to allow the other digi channels and terrestrial to
be seen on the TV.

Basically, I want all options to see and record and see other channels
at the same time.

I am a radio amateur, so I should be able to sort this out with no
outside help, but I am just coming out of a long period of poor health
(mainly bronchitis)

Regards

Dave

In article ,
Dave wrote:
Thanks Peter, but I want the wife to be able to record freeview on the
dvd re-recorder. The problem I have right now, is that if I power up the
digi box, all is fine. When I power up the DVD re-recorder, it swamps
the TV with the signal that is coming from the digi box. They are all
scart connected.
I am thinking that a video recorder that is switched off, might buffer
the digi signal out, to allow the other digi channels and terrestrial to
be seen on the TV.

Basically, I want all options to see and record and see other channels
at the same time.

I am a radio amateur, so I should be able to sort this out with no
outside help, but I am just coming out of a long period of poor health
(mainly bronchitis)

Most TVs will auto switch to the most recent SCART connection powered up.
But most allow you to switch back to any SCART or indeed the internal
tuner after this has happened - I've not come across one which won't. But
non of this should effect recording from a FreeView tuner to the DVD -
you'd normally use the record SCART on the FreeView box into the aux SCART
on the DVD.

--
*Can fat people go skinny-dipping?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Dave wrote:
Peter Crosland wrote:

Dave wrote:

Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and
video recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.


This might help.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/consumer/connection_wizard.html

Thanks Peter, but I want the wife to be able to record freeview on the
dvd re-recorder. The problem I have right now, is that if I power up
the digi box, all is fine. When I power up the DVD re-recorder, it
swamps the TV with the signal that is coming from the digi box. They
are all scart connected.
I am thinking that a video recorder that is switched off, might buffer
the digi signal out, to allow the other digi channels and terrestrial
to be seen on the TV.

Basically, I want all options to see and record and see other channels
at the same time.

I am a radio amateur, so I should be able to sort this out with no
outside help, but I am just coming out of a long period of poor health
(mainly bronchitis)

Owain is correct Dave. You will find some very knowledgeable people on the
uk.tech.digital-tv group.

73 de G6JNS

Peter Crosland

Dave wrote on 15/12/2007 :
Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and video
recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.

http://www.avforums.com/

--

Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

In article ,
Peter Crosland wrote:
Owain is correct Dave. You will find some very knowledgeable people on
the uk.tech.digital-tv group.

Many of whom also read this group. ;-)

The key to getting an answer to all these sort of things is stating the
problem clearly.

The OP sort of hasn't. I've tried to answer his query as I interpret it.

--
*Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:09:57 +0000, Dave
wrote:

Stuart B wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:40:08 +0000, Dave
wrote:


Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and video
recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.

Dave


Probably uk.media.tv.misc or you might be better trying one of the
various Forums ( websites) that specialise in such matters .Can't
recall any offhand at the moment tho'
When you say dvd rewriter I presume you mean dvd recorder as rewriter
usually refers to one on a PC

Yes, I do, but I regard any DVD drive that can use re-writables as a
re-writer. Sorry.

You may well do but I was just tring to point out that you may cause
confusion by using that term .

Peter Crosland wrote:
Dave wrote:
Peter Crosland wrote:

Dave wrote:

Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and
video recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.

This might help.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/consumer/connection_wizard.html
Thanks Peter, but I want the wife to be able to record freeview on the
dvd re-recorder. The problem I have right now, is that if I power up
the digi box, all is fine. When I power up the DVD re-recorder, it
swamps the TV with the signal that is coming from the digi box. They
are all scart connected.
I am thinking that a video recorder that is switched off, might buffer
the digi signal out, to allow the other digi channels and terrestrial
to be seen on the TV.

Basically, I want all options to see and record and see other channels
at the same time.

I am a radio amateur, so I should be able to sort this out with no
outside help, but I am just coming out of a long period of poor health
(mainly bronchitis)

Owain is correct Dave. You will find some very knowledgeable people on the
uk.tech.digital-tv group.

73 de G6JNS

Peter Crosland



Like most people I spent an afternoon setting everything up and now
can't remember how. The DVD recorder source button may help

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave
saying something like:

When I power up the DVD re-recorder, it swamps
the TV with the signal that is coming from the digi box. They are all
scart connected.

If you disable pin 8 in the SCART lead it will prevent the appliance
from switching the TV over to that input.
--

Dave

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Most TVs will auto switch to the most recent SCART connection powered up.
But most allow you to switch back to any SCART or indeed the internal
tuner after this has happened - I've not come across one which won't. But
non of this should effect recording from a FreeView tuner to the DVD -
you'd normally use the record SCART on the FreeView box into the aux SCART
on the DVD.

Well, that's some good news :-)

Dave

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Peter Crosland wrote:

Owain is correct Dave. You will find some very knowledgeable people on
the uk.tech.digital-tv group.


Many of whom also read this group. ;-)

The key to getting an answer to all these sort of things is stating the
problem clearly.

The OP sort of hasn't. I've tried to answer his query as I interpret it.

Guilty as charged. :-(

Wife went out and bought a flat screen TV and a DVD recorder that has a
hard drive as well. Due to family commitments and poor health, I have
been unable to get the recorder up and running. I started to connect
everything up, without the free view and couldn't get it to work. So I
took the DVD up to my hobby room and used my free view box and TV to
sort things out. According to your earlier post, when I connect up to
the TV downstairs, that has 2 scart sockets, I should end up with what I
want. I have taken a look at the options of the TV and there is indeed
one to select the input, which my old TV doesn't have.

I have now made a plan of history and what makes what work. The next
step is to set everything up downstairs and see if it behaves.

I have never seen as many coax links and scart cable in a set-up like this.

Many Thanks to all who have tried to help this poor person.

Dave

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave
saying something like:


When I power up the DVD re-recorder, it swamps
the TV with the signal that is coming from the digi box. They are all
scart connected.


If you disable pin 8 in the SCART lead it will prevent the appliance
from switching the TV over to that input.

That's an interesting bit of info, thanks.

Dave

In article ,
Dave wrote:
I have never seen as many coax links and scart cable in a set-up like
this.

You should see mine. ;-) AV amp on the other side of the room so much
routing back and fore. Plus a SCART link through to the kitchen so I can
have exactly the same showing in there without the sound delay probs you
get with different FreeView boxes. Also allows me to use the PVR there as
well. I'll try and post a pic tomorrow.

--
*If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article ,
Dave wrote:
If you disable pin 8 in the SCART lead it will prevent the appliance
from switching the TV over to that input.

That's an interesting bit of info, thanks.

I find that feature very useful. Without it you'd have to select the
correct input on the TV every time - so you might as well just do that on
the odd occasion where it is wrong for what you want.

--
*Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Peter Crosland wrote:
Dave wrote:

Peter Crosland wrote:


Dave wrote:


Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and
video recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.


This might help.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/consumer/connection_wizard.html

Thanks Peter, but I want the wife to be able to record freeview on the
dvd re-recorder. The problem I have right now, is that if I power up
the digi box, all is fine. When I power up the DVD re-recorder, it
swamps the TV with the signal that is coming from the digi box. They
are all scart connected.
I am thinking that a video recorder that is switched off, might buffer
the digi signal out, to allow the other digi channels and terrestrial
to be seen on the TV.

Basically, I want all options to see and record and see other channels
at the same time.

I am a radio amateur, so I should be able to sort this out with no
outside help, but I am just coming out of a long period of poor health
(mainly bronchitis)


Owain is correct Dave. You will find some very knowledgeable people on the
uk.tech.digital-tv group.

73 de G6JNS

You must have sat the same snail pace exam that I did, I didn't get my
call sign until the following July :-)

Dave

"Dave" wrote in message
...
Peter Crosland wrote:
Dave wrote:

Peter Crosland wrote:


Dave wrote:


Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and
video recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.


This might help.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/consumer/connection_wizard.html

Thanks Peter, but I want the wife to be able to record freeview on the
dvd re-recorder. The problem I have right now, is that if I power up
the digi box, all is fine. When I power up the DVD re-recorder, it
swamps the TV with the signal that is coming from the digi box. They
are all scart connected.
I am thinking that a video recorder that is switched off, might buffer
the digi signal out, to allow the other digi channels and terrestrial
to be seen on the TV.

Basically, I want all options to see and record and see other channels
at the same time.

I am a radio amateur, so I should be able to sort this out with no
outside help, but I am just coming out of a long period of poor health
(mainly bronchitis)


Owain is correct Dave. You will find some very knowledgeable people on
the uk.tech.digital-tv group.

73 de G6JNS

You must have sat the same snail pace exam that I did, I didn't get my
call sign until the following July :-)

Dave

Dave,

I think you'll need to give more details before anyone can sensibly help
you.
How many scart connections on the digi box? what are they labelled?
Ditto on the recorder box?
How many scart leads do you have in the setup and how are they connected?
Phil

Phil B wrote:

"Dave" wrote in message
...

Peter Crosland wrote:

Dave wrote:


Peter Crosland wrote:



Dave wrote:



Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.

I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and
video recorder a lot deeper.

Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.


This might help.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/consumer/connection_wizard.html

Thanks Peter, but I want the wife to be able to record freeview on the
dvd re-recorder. The problem I have right now, is that if I power up
the digi box, all is fine. When I power up the DVD re-recorder, it
swamps the TV with the signal that is coming from the digi box. They
are all scart connected.
I am thinking that a video recorder that is switched off, might buffer
the digi signal out, to allow the other digi channels and terrestrial
to be seen on the TV.

Basically, I want all options to see and record and see other channels
at the same time.

I am a radio amateur, so I should be able to sort this out with no
outside help, but I am just coming out of a long period of poor health
(mainly bronchitis)


Owain is correct Dave. You will find some very knowledgeable people on
the uk.tech.digital-tv group.

73 de G6JNS

You must have sat the same snail pace exam that I did, I didn't get my
call sign until the following July :-)

Dave


Dave,

I think you'll need to give more details before anyone can sensibly help
you.
How many scart connections on the digi box? what are they labelled?
Ditto on the recorder box?
How many scart leads do you have in the setup and how are they connected?

Noted. I will get back to you soon.

Dave

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Most TVs will auto switch to the most recent SCART connection powered up.
But most allow you to switch back to any SCART or indeed the internal
tuner after this has happened - I've not come across one which won't. But
non of this should effect recording from a FreeView tuner to the DVD -
you'd normally use the record SCART on the FreeView box into the aux SCART
on the DVD.

Many thanks for that Dave. When I finally got back to the problem, I
found that it was the way that the buttons on the remote were pressed.
Press them in one direction and the DVD re recorder would take over.
Press them another way and you were correct.

Once again, many thanks.

Dave

Phil B wrote:


I think you'll need to give more details before anyone can sensibly help
you.
How many scart connections on the digi box? what are they labelled?
Ditto on the recorder box?
How many scart leads do you have in the setup and how are they connected?

Thanks to Dave Plowman and help from another ng, I have managed to get
past my original problem of the DVD re recorder and the free view box
taking control of the TV.

Many thanks for your input though, it was much appreciated.

Dave

Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Dave wrote on 15/12/2007 :

Some of you may have seen a post from me about video quality.


I need to go into this and hooking up DVD rewriter, free view and
video recorder a lot deeper.


Can any one tell me of a suitable ng to post to please.


http://www.avforums.com/

Nice site. I have book marked it thank

Dave