technomate recording.....

[chavslav]

Originally Posted by BGonaSTICK

No filppin' idea! :roflmao:

When you say record, I take it that it's a DVD recorder you have?

Hmm. I think I would try this, as I have something similar working.

I would try daisy chaining via SCART.

I have:
Sky digibox TV SCART ==> Dreambox VCR SCART
Then:
Dreambox TV SCART ==> Sony TV SCART 2

I also have a Toshiba DVD player plugged into the Sony TV SCART 1, which is RGB. For terrestrial, I have the TV aerial plugged into the Sky digibox ANT IN, RF out 1 from the Sky digibox looped through a Panasonic VCR into the TV RF aerial socket. Finally, I have the Sky digibox VCR SCART plugged into a Panasonic VCR AV1 SCART (so the kids can video Sky channels, but not naughty stuff from the Dreambox). I could probably just loop the terrestrial aerial through the VCR to the TV, bypassing the digibox and save a couple of RF cables.

So there's no reason that you shouldn't try:

Sky digibox TV SCART ==> Technomate VCR SCART
Then:
Technomate TV SCART ==> DVD recorder SCART 2
and:
DVD recorder SCART 1 ==> your TV SCART 1

and feed your PC stream into your TV SCART 2.

If you wanted to be able to record the stream as well, you could try feeding it into the Sky digibox VCR SCART.
If that doesn't work, feed the stream into the Sky digibox TV SCART, and connect the Sky digibox VCR SCART to the Technomate VCR SCART as above.

Now, you can connect up your terrestrial the same as mine too and you should be done.

You can switch from the Sky digibox to the Technomate by putting the other receiver into standby. The Techno should take priority if they're both turned on. My Dreambox does.

Hope this helps, but I somehow think it doesn't!



followed all that superbly, tm and sky box linked as in your post.

the pc lead is not long enough to go in tv scart, so have put it in vcr scart on skybox,but no luck ,can't see picture, do i have to have tm and digibox in standby or dvd on or off....

any help much appreciated....

[chavslav]

followed all that superbly, tm and sky box linked as in your post.

the pc lead is not long enough to go in tv scart, so have put it in vcr scart on skybox,but no luck ,can't see picture, do i have to have tm and digibox in standby or dvd on or off....

any help much appreciated....


i have since unplugged digibox going in to tm,put digibox into tv, and pc into vcr scart on tm ,but everythings gone green........

[Jimdefruit]

Does your dvd recorder have a sat monitor facility and auto switching of different inputs?

I have my connections as sky box > dvd recorder > TV
Dreambox > TV
PC <> Dreambox via lan

The dreambox has its own hard drive for recording and the systems have auto switching via scart.

[chavslav]

all sorted now thanks for replies.

one of the scart leads wern't in properly and pc needed re-booting ,thanks stick..

[BGonaSTICK]

Cool 8)

Didn't imagine for a minute that would work! :roflmao: