"Clyde" wrote in message
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On 06/07/2010 15:48, Mark Carver wrote:
On 06/07/2010 15:21, Brian Mc wrote:
wrote:
: It depends, if the box output can be set as composite video (CBVS)
then
: yes. However, some Freeview boxes etc. output RGB which will not be
: convertible by a VCR.

I would be extremely surprised if *ANY* Freeview box cannot be
switched to
CBVS on its SCART output! It is far more universal than RGB.

The Scart RGB interface actually relies on the CVBS signal to be
present, in order to provide the sync pulses. There are no 'syncs on
green'. However on Sky boxes the actual video signal on CVBS was (still
is ?) muted in RGB output mode.


I stand corrected! Sorry I was thinking of an experience I had trying to
get an old Pace analogue receiver to relay the SCART output from my
Freeview box to a TV with only a UHF socket. Turned out that the Pace
receiver just transferred the output to the appropriate SCART and
performed no modulation.

I have also had experience of TV's where the CVBS setting produced a
better picture than the RGB, in some extreme cases the RGB output shifted
the picture to the right.

All 3 of my PVRs give a better picture when set to CVBS than RGB - I thought
it should be the other way round but it isn't.