New digibox (part three)

[denis567]

Sorry for the rush at the end of the last message, but I was running out of space again. I didn't know you were restricted to the length of the message, and I had been cut off twice. The screen just goes blank and you have to start again.

[WhiteBear]

hi dennis you dont have to start a new post to continue your query.

just go into your question and click 'post an answer'

[Buenchico]

(2-part post):

Firstly, a little hint about posting long questions: Once you've run out of space in the question area, click 'Submit'. Then, when your question appears, click 'Post an Answer'. (Repeat if necessary). That way, your whole question remains in single thread.

Now to try to answer your actual question;

When you connect some devices (such as TVs, VCRs, DVD recorders, digiboxes, etc), the 'receiving' device can sometimes 'auto-detect' where the incoming signal is coming from. Other combinations don't always work so well, so you need to tell the receiving device which signal it should be working with.

It seems that your DVD recorder 'knew' that it had an incoming signal from the digibox you used to have, and automatically switched to recording from that source. However, your replacement digibox doesn't provide the signal which forces the DVD recorder to automatically recognise the signal from the box. So it records from its own analogue tuner, instead of recording the incoming signal from the digibox.

[Buenchico]

The solution should be simple (although I have to admit that I'm finding it difficult to type with my fingers crossed!). Just ensure that the DVD recorder is set to record from 'AV', rather than from any numbered channel. That forces the recorder to only record from whatever's plugged into its 'Scart In' socket. (i.e. it should ignore the signal from its built-in analogue tuner).

The way that I'd set things up is as follows:

Aerial to digibox.
Scart lead from digibox to DVD recorder.
Scart lead from DVD recorder to TV.

Unless you need to use analogue channels (or you've got a TV with built-in Freeview, as well as the digibox, so that you can watch one channel while recording another), that's all you need. However it wouldn't do any harm to 'chain' the aerial connection, using fly leads between each device in the sequence.

Chris

[denis567]

Thanks Chris, I will give it a go tomorrow

[denis567]

Chris (Buenchico) you are a star. I have followed your advice and everything is up and running as it used to be. Many thanks. Thanks also for your tips ( and Whitebear as well) about posting a long mesage.