TV question

[Junko]

Can anyone offer a little advise? Sorry mods if this is in the wrong forum?

Just got meself a brand spanky new 28" widescreen Sony tv today , very impressed with picture quality but DVD playback is pretty dismal.

It has two scart sockets only one is RGB , my Sky plus box is plugged into that . The DVD is plugged into AV scart socket , am I doing something wrong and is there anything I can do to improve my DVD playback picture quality

Cheers in advance

[SharkSkin-Man]

There's usually an option to switch SCART 2 from AV to S-Video in the TVs menu somewhere...that should clean the picture up a bit.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Another suggestion is plug your DVD player in RGB scart for better colour and display but it will mean unplugging it and time to invest in a nice Argos scart switcher. (One without cable)

[fuzzybee]

what you are getting is composite through your second scart input/AV2, as suggested either buy a RGB splitter fron Argos/Index for RGB ovision, or change your second scart input from AV to s-video in the tv's menu and buy a s-video to scart cable. Both options will be superior to your current situation but the RGB splitter should be the option to go for

[Freddo]

also not all dvd players output svideo through their scart socket by default, or at least mine doesnt.

[Shin Gouki]

I take it that AV2S means s-video so i can get me an s-video cable and scart adapter and stop using my PC on my TV with the crap Composite leads runing from my video card?

I never knew this and this is great news now i can play SFA3 FBA in S-video

[fuzzybee]

also not all dvd players output svideo through their scart socket by default, or at least mine doesnt.

It wouldn't do as a scart output on the back of a dvd player is ninety nine times out of a hundred is for RGB.
A scart output/input cannot support RGB and s-video it's either one or the other RGB/composite or composite/s-video and Yes AV2S means s-video

I have a high quality custom made 5m s-video to scart cable going spare, if your interested pm me

[choddo]

What I do is plug the DVD player into SCART2 on the Sky box, then whenever you turn the DVD on, the Sky box goes into a kind of sleep mode and you get a lovely RGB picture from the DVD.