technical ponder!!
 

I have a philips dvd recorder, panasonic sat box, sony prologic video recorder and a tosh TV. I want to be able to connect them together and play my DVD through the video to the TV, record sat onto DVD and video. Would also like to record DVD to Video and Video to DVD. Each unit has two scarts. Anyone help!!!!!!

IIRC SCART is uni-directional, as a result you are going to end up with a nice big loop or you may have to revert to coax for some of the pass back and even put in splitters.

What kind of DVD's are you wanting to copy? I tried it a while ago but the copy protection prevented me doing it.

From what I read it is DVD > Video and Video > DVD not DVD > DVD, but I could be wrong. for DVD > DVD, best to do it on a PC IMHO as you can do high speed copying and there is loads of s/w to get round the anti-copyright (should you have accidently added that on to your home movie when you cut the original copy) :D

you need a standalone amp. a DD or DTS can be used as your switcher. scart boxes are ok but you find that you run out of sockets fairly soon. anyone with a good home cinema setup uses an amp to switch. I have this lot all switch thru my sony 940 DTS amp.

See http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...homecinema.jpg

cheers

sinky

Tried copying films ages ago from DVD to VHS via SCART - this is what I meant didn't work...

just looked at bigsinky's pic - WTF! you need another TV mate - you've got 2 of everything else... ;) What amp is that BTW? looks like mine... (Sony STR DB940)

@messiah

tis a sony 940. 110 watts per channel. hooked up to B+W's all round. loud DTS soundtracks necessitate the need for a structural engineer afterwards. :D

it is a good setup but it has changed in that i no longer have a video recorder. i bought a liteon 5007 dvd recorder which is fab. It was a bitch to set up and cost me a fortune interconnects but hey ho i now have a really good system.

yep alot there 2 dvb boxes, $ky digi, freeview (modded OnDigital box), Sony amp, 2 dvd players and the old analogue sky box is just used as a positioner for my 1.2m dish. too many channel not enough time. great for the *ahem "educational" programmes :D

B&W's here too - no VCR either!

ahh - German "sports" channels, been a while since I watched the late night bedroom gymnastics on Sat 1... :D

oh no m8,this is the good stuff, taquilla, kioske, palco, tps, absat all have pay per view movies that shall we say alter thier movie themes after midnight. taquilla and kioske also have 7 channels that are 24 hrs per day. :D with the DVB card in the pc i can record the sat feed direct to my hard disk in MPEG2 format, don't even need to convert to dvd compliance, just burn to dvd and away you go.

like i said before so many channels not enough time.

@scooby2000wrx

sorry m8 we seem to have hijacked your thread. my previous advice still hold though. get a cheap DTS amp. some of the $ky stuff is being broadcast in DD5.1 now and DTS dvds sound so much better ;)

cheers

sinky

Any particular reason to have DVD-R and a video? Large back-catalogue?

thanks for your info......sounds a little tricky to do exactly what I want!!