Working with one scart output on Tivo

tvout · 17-06-2011, 13:14

Hi all,
I'm trying to get the best set up with my new Tivo, VCR, DVD recorder and CRT TV using just the one scart on the Tivo and wondered if anyone could suggest the best set up?
The Tivo box has a scart splitter cable which has one cable direct to AV1 on the TV and the other cable goes to the DVD player scart in. From the DVD player the scart out goes to the scart in on the VCR, from the scart out on the VCR a cable goes to AV2 on the TV (basically daisy chained from Tivo, DVD Recorder, VCR, TV).
With the cable connected to the splitter from the DVD recorder the picture on AV1 is really dark and has ghosting of another channel going across the screen constantly.
I'm not sure whether it might be better using an alternative AV output from the Tivo to the DVD recorder rather than the Scart (e.g. phonos) or whether to replace the Scart cables or the splitter, maybe get gold plated or shielded scart cables.
The picture is fine as long as the dvd recorder isn't connected to the scart splitter. The other issue I was getting was amplifying white lines coming up from the bottom right corner of the screen.

Any help or suggestions (other than buying a HD TV!) would be much appreciated.

spiderplant · 17-06-2011, 20:12

Having the splitter may be putting too much load on the TiVo output. What happens if you remove the splitter and simply go TiVo-DVD-VCR-TV? This will also let you use the RGB input on the TV for all devices.

Or if you don't want to record from the TiVo, you can do DVD-VCR-TV and TiVo-TV

The Tivo only has two video outputs (SCART and HDMI) which limits alternatives.