Page 1 of Loop through scarts and the case of the missing RGB siganl (Harmon Kardon DVD10)

Great machine!

However my TV only has one RGB scart and before DVD this was used to give the best possible picture from my Sky digibox

Now I regard the DVD has having priority. So it is scarted straight to the TV as RGB. The TV still detects that it is RGB and displays it as so. I then put the Sky on a loop through via the second scart socket on the DVD. However my TV won`t recognise the RGB signal coming from sky. the DVD is on stand by(off) mode.
The TV detects the picture from sky but displays it as composite and not RGB. It`s almost like the DVD is filtering out the RGB and passing only composite.

The Sky has only RGB or composite as you all know. The composite picture is clearly inferior. I do have the option of using S-video on the DVD and going to the TV a different route but would sooner keep things like this.

Does this happen on all loop through scarts or is it just mine?

Sadly, very few machines bar high end player offer RGB loop through. You can get them modified via places such as techtronics.com but it will cost.

The choices are now simple, DVD to RGB and live with a inferior SKY picture, or, route the DVD into S-video which in my humble opinion is very good. The other thing to consider is an RGB capable scart switch box. John lewis are now selling a unit that costs £30.00 that will split mutiple RGB signals into one source. However, purist`s feel that you loose quality this way. I suspect this is only marginal though.

I hope this helps.


Pete.