Greetings all

I've gone mad and bought a SCART cord to connect my Toppie (standard stb) to VCR.

Hooking it up, it seems that the leads to the RCA plugs are marked in reverse, ie Audio In, seems to go into the vcr hole marked Audio Out. In other words, the markings seem to refer to the stb connections. Connecting Video In to the vcr results in no recording.

Have I got it right?

I've read in these forums about using the 6 RCA leads and playing back through the box. Anybody know how to make that work; it's beyond me. Guru in a hi-fi store said to use the tv/vcr switch. Sorry, my Toppie does not have one, unless the function is called something else.

Look forward to your thoughts.

Regards

Noel (known as Diggings)

I think you may have gotten a A/V to SCART lead, not a SCART to A/V lead.

I would take it back to the place of purchase and get the store to check it.

Hooking it up, it seems that the leads to the RCA plugs are marked in reverse, ie Audio In, seems to go into the vcr hole marked Audio Out. In other words, the markings seem to refer to the stb connections. Connecting Video In to the vcr results in no recording.

Have I got it right?

Well, you mention SCART to 6RCAs, but I gather the one you have doesn't have 6RCAs.. because my SCART to 6RCA lead has INs and OUTs for all audio and composite video. Sounds like they only gave you a SCART to 3RCA cable, which is no better then using one of those in/out adapters.

I've read in these forums about using the 6 RCA leads and playing back through the box. Anybody know how to make that work; it's beyond me. Guru in a hi-fi store said to use the tv/vcr switch. Sorry, my Toppie does not have one, unless the function is called something else.

The Toppie does have one, of sorts, it is the button between the UHF key and the Sleep Timer key. This will manually switch the VCR passthru to your TV. You may have to switch the Toppy to "External A/V" in the VCR SCART TYPE setting, to enable the manual toggle (if you had a SCART VCR, or SCART DVD player, then it automatically switches the Toppy into passthru when out of standby).

One more tip/got'ya... if you are running SVIDEO to the TV, then the composite passthrough from the VCR will be monochrome (unless your TV is set for Auto and doesn't mind getting composite via the SVIDEO lead).

The reverse passthru will send composite no problems to the VCR (hmm, again if it is SVIDEO I am not 100% sure... but RGB and composite are both fine).

Regards

See: http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=6018 a little further down the page.

HI Tony

Many thanks for your suggestions. I now can replay vcr material through the stb but as you predicted, it is in b&w. Simple to do: return the stb to standby and there it is. Sometimes solutions are so simple we can't see them.

My Toppy TF3000T doesn't appear to have a button between UHF and Sleep Timer; the one right of UHF is TV/Sat, which seems to do nothing, except illuminate a yellow light on the control panel.

I'm using S-Video to the tv set.

I'd welcome any further thoughts you may have.

Regards

diggings AKA Noel

diggings@hunterlink.net.au

I was giving the suggestion for TF5000, not 3000 (you didn't indicate which Topfield you had and I presumed incorrectly). I am sure it would have some kind of passthrough, but you are going to have to look in your manual for which key triggers it (of course as you have discovered, putting it into Standby triggers it, which is a reasonable solution given you can only watch one thing at a time anyway).

Regards