Stupid TV set up

[Scarlett]

I am still having such problems with my TV set up and am clueless how to put it right.
I have a TV, DVD recorder, VHS and Sky.
They are set up with loads of scarts. At the moment, the problem is, if I want to play a video or DVD I have to turn the Sky off. But when I do that, I have DVD and video SOUND but no picture. I have checked all the connections and still no picture.
Any idea what is causing this? The picture comes back on when I switch it all off at the wall, and turn OFF the DVD and video power, and just have the Sky and TV on. It's driving me mad cos I have no way of fixing it unless I call out Sky or Currys and they charge god knows what!

[vehelpfulguy]

The books that came with your various products should show how to set it up.

Ignoring VHS at the moment, the way I have it is Sky box connected to DVD recorder by a scart. Then DVD recorder connected to TV by a scart.

So the Sky signal goes out the Sky box, into the DVD recorder, then into the TV.

I set the DVD on channel AV2 (so it "sees" what is coming in via the scart). Yours may be called Ext or something like that.

Adding a VHS makes it more complex as this is similar to a DVD recorder and they both "sit" in the same place in the circuit..

When I want to use the VHS (rarely) I unplug the DVD and plug the VHS in its place. Not sure if this is the best solution but it works for me.

[Whickerman]

On my tv there are 3 scart inputs.

My dvd recorder into one, my sky into another, playstation in third.

In addition, the sky box has a scart to the dvd recorder. All pretty straight forward.

How many inputs does yours have?

[booboo67]

try this site,
http://www.dtg.org.uk/consumer/connection_wiza rd.html
good luck

[Scarlett]

Okay, I have:

TV scart into DVD
TV scart into SKY
TV arial into DVD
DVD scart into SKY
VCR seems to have no connections into anything!

It HAS worked fine before, but now it seems that every time I use the DVD or video I then lose the picture on the TV or it's only black and white, and now I have no picture at all.

This set up was done by the man from Sky, by the way.

[Disco Fever]

If it goes black and white and then you lose the picture completely then you have a dodgy scart lead, my tv did this a couple of weeks ago so I bought a new lead and all is now back to normal....

[Whickerman]

your vcr must be connected somehow?

[Postdog]

I suspect a dodgy lead too - perhaps a broken pin or something. Try a spare lead, or using one of the "good" ones.