Posted by Deke on 09/22/06 04:24

"carman" <replytogroup@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:L3EQg.9159$2g5.8683@newsfe7-win.ntli.net...
> I've just picked up a JVC DVD/VCR DR-MX1S combo recorder to replace my
VCR.
> Previously on my VCR I'd been able to record from my Sony Freeview
VTX-D800U
> receiver and preview the Freeview channel on the TV. The Freeview
receiver
> was channel E2 on the VCR.
>
> Now I can find no way to record the channel on Freeview through the DVD
> combo. Switching on the Freeview receiver overrides whatever is playing
via
> the DVD combo so I cannnot preview what the DVD combo will record.
>
> Connections are same as through the VCR. Scart lead from DVD combo to
> Freeview receiver to TV.
>
> Any suggestions.
>
>
I'm familiar with the DR-MV1S American version, but not with the European
scart connection scheme. Just off the top of my head, shouldnt the
connections be from Freeview reciever to
DVD combo to TV? As you describe it, seems to me the reciever would always
over ride the combo. Is scart two way?

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