A comment here indicates that for loopthrough to work one needs a SCART-SCART cable, and not SCART->component. That would explain why it doesn’t work – and also makes the feature pretty worthless since there must be about 3 TVs in all of New Zealand that have SCART input.
Category: MySky
MySky Loopthrough Problem
Another MySky update: I moved everything about yesterday, removing the VCR from the lounge. The MySky manual mentions a “loopthrough” feature, in which a single AV channel on a TV can be shared between MySky and another device (e.g. a DVD player or PlayStation). The manual says to have the SCART output labelled “TV” go to the TV’s AV port (unsurprisingly), and (surprisingly) have the other SCART output (input?) go to the other device (e.g. DVD player). Then pressing the “AV” button on the remote will swap between Sky and the other device.
This would be useful for me, because unfortunately the TV in the lounge only has a single AV channel (and only one set of plugs, at the rear), so I could plug both the DVD player and MySky in (rather than the current setup, which has the DVD player plugged in, and Sky through the RF leads, which isn’t as high quality).
However, this just doesn’t seem to work. The “TV” SCART seems to output the MySky signal or (if “AV” is pressed) no signal at all. The other SCART constantly outputs the MySky signal (as with non-PVR Sky, it’s an output, not an input). The other video connections are all output as well.
Something else to ask about as well as the broken series link feature, I suppose.
Initial MySky Impressions
It’s been about 48 hours since I had my MySky box installed, so I thought I’d note down a few initial impressions. Continue reading “Initial MySky Impressions”
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