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How do I connect TV - scart box-digibox- dvd recorder?

• I have a very old TV with one scart port. i have a freeview box with one scart I have a dvd recorder with one scart I have a scart box which allows me to plug in scart from TV and then has 3 scart ports to allow me to switch between them I put the scart lead from the TV into the TV MONITOR port on the scart box I put the scart lead from the DIGIBOX into the scart box port A I put the scart lead from the DVD recorder into the Scart box b Works fine, I can watch analogue tv, digital tv and play a dvd from the DVD Record by simply pushing button on scart box eithe A or B Here is the problem. I switch the DVD player to AV and I can see the analogue channels no problem. and can recorder them. I cannot get the DVD player to "show" the digital channels at all so cannot record them. Hours have gone by - loads of different aerial cables going from one box to another - nothing seems to work - have unplugged the lot and given up - spent hours trying to get this to work all to no avail. Can some-one tell me how to plug this lot together. What cables do I need, from where to where. To recap: tv has aerial in and one scart digibox has aerial in - aerial out and one scart dvd player has aerial in - aerial out and one scart (lots of other holes which just confuse me!!) HELP!

• Answer:

  With that set-up, you can't record from your digibox. The switch connects either box to the TV but it's not capable of joining the two together. If you plug a scart lead directly from the digibox to the DVD recorder, it will record - but there's no way of monitoring what you're recording. It's most unusual to have a DVD recorder with only one scart - are you sure it's not just a player?