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akb1979
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Having received a DVD player for christmas (YAY! [Big Grin] ), I am a little confused about something. OK, here it is;

My TV has a scart socket in the back which connects to the VCR and Hi-Fi unit. The VCR has a second scart socket which I've used to connect the DVD player. Now I can get sound and video from DVD to TV, but I can't get sound from DVD to Hi-Fi with the scart socket (in any configuration) - I have to pull the joint-cable out of the Hi-Fi (that is connected to the TV) and plug separate cables in from the DVD.

Q1) Is it me or is this just plain S-T-U-P-I-D?
Q2) Is there such a thing as a "cable socket spliter" that will allow me to have the scart cable from the TV and the audio cables from the DVD player plugged into the Hi-Fi at once?
Q3) Is there a way to tune the TV to the DVD player as I can only "pick-up" the transmission when on a blank channel?

Oh and it's a Cyberhome DVD402, but I'm not sure that that will help much . . .

I eagerly await your technical advice!
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A1) No. The SCART system was developed primarily with image quality in mind, which was unbelievably sucky at the time. The audio department got short-changed somewhat, meaning that routing multiple channel digital encoded signals through a SCART cable results in considerable loss in quality -- see, there's method to this seperate cable madness. We're talking roughly a decade before the advent of DVD technology, though. Can't blame the designers for not taking current standards into consideration. Besides, the things had to be cheap.

A2) Not to my knowledge... but it's a minor inconvenience anyway.

A3) Since you've hooked up the DVD player to the TV *via* the VCR, any unoccupied (i.e. blank) channel will automatically broadcast its transmission. Not too elegant, but that's hardware logic for you.

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PsyLiam
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If your DVD image is going through your VCR then there's a good chance that the TV is receiving a combined (composite?) image, which is a bit of a waste. Plug the VCR into the second AV on your TV (if you have one), or just through the arial. Videos are shit anyway, so there's no real need to waste a nice SCART socket on one.

Plug the DVD directly into the TV< and make sure that the DVD player is turned to RGB mode. This broadcasts all the colours seperatly, and stops almost all colour bleeding.

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akb1979
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Uh-huh, uh-huh and uh-huh. (Nods head as reads and understands each statement).

Many thanks! That clears a few things up.

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Don't know if this will help - and probably got your problem wrong anyway - but I used the rca cable (the round one with a little prong in the middle) for the Video and the red/white/yellow cable for the DVD.

Video is on video 1 channel DVD is on video 2 channel.

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The cable you called "RCA" is just a coax cable. I think it's also called "composite". An RCA cable is the the red/white/yellow one (also called "component", I believe).
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oops sorry - ok what you said.

Round with prong and White/Red/Yellow

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PsyLiam
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And both of them are worse that a RGB SCART lead or a S-Video lead.

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What's a SCART?

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PsyLiam
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It's a block shaped socket designed to get the best image quality. Therefore all the colours, sound channels and whatnot are carried seperatly. I don't think they have them on US TVs.

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AndrewR
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Never seen them on Australian TVs.

And what I'm using now gives pretty decent sound and picture quality.

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PsyLiam
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Could be better though. [Smile] And I've come to the conclusion that SCART is a Europe only thing. It matches our PALness, or something.

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Do the French use it, though?
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PsyLiam
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Yes, although I think they call it Euroconnector.

Daft hairy things.

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Andrew, they do have scart ports on some imported TV's. However you just plug in a converter to switch it to RCA.

Why use scart though, component or s-video gives a better image / sound combination.


Anyhoo.

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