Sky eye and the AV channel

lovebargains

I have sky on the tv downstairs, and have put the sky eye on the tv upstairs. The tv with the sky eye is also connected to a dvd recorder. Now! we can watch sky on the sky eye tv and the picture is perfect, and can control the sky box using the sky eye no problem. But! when we want to record from sky, or record from the sky plus box onto the dvd recorder and so therefore we have to switch to AV, the picture is awful, lots of ghosty lines. We have tuned in all the channels on the sky eye tv and the pictures great, its just when we switch to AV to record, and we cant tune in the av channels. Am I doing something wrong? can you tune av channels? Its driving me mad, want to record the things off sky plus box onto dvds to make space.

penrhyn

The DVD recorder needs connecting to your Sky+ box using the scart connector, you would then select the appropriate AV channel on your DVD recorder and play back programmes recorded on your Sky+ box.
If you want to do this with the DVD recorder co located with your remote TV then you need to tune one of the DVD recorder's RF channels to the frequency that the RF2 output sends, and loop the aerial lead through the DVD recorder.

lovebargains

penrhyn wrote: »

The DVD recorder needs connecting to your Sky+ box using the scart connector, you would then select the appropriate AV channel on your DVD recorder and play back programmes recorded on your Sky+ box.
If you want to do this with the DVD recorder co located with your remote TV then you need to tune one of the DVD recorder's RF channels to the frequency that the RF2 output sends, and loop the aerial lead through the DVD recorder.

Hiya, thanks for answering, yes its set up like that, but picture still ghosty! We have recorded onto dvds and the picture is quite poor still!

bluboy

...If you want to do this with the DVD recorder co located with your remote TV then you need to tune one of the DVD recorder's RF channels to the frequency that the RF2 output sends, and loop the aerial lead through the DVD recorder.

...yes its set up like that, but picture still ghosty! We have recorded onto dvds and the picture is quite poor still!

So the cable from the sky+ box (downstairs) comes upstairs and goes to the DVD recorder (RF IN socket) first then you have both an RF (short aerial-type) cable and scart connecting the DVD to the TV?

If this is the case, and the TV picture is okay apart from on AV, then I'd guess the DVD has not been tuned in to the Sky RF. You have to 'tune in' the DVD recorder in the same way as you would a TV.

When you switch to DVD (thru AV on the TV) check out the DVD menus and see if they appear ghosty as well. If they look clear then I would try setting up the DVD tuning. (You're not tuning in the AV you're tuning the DVD to the sky+ box RF channels)

lovebargains

bluboy wrote: »

So the cable from the sky+ box (downstairs) comes upstairs and goes to the DVD recorder (RF IN socket) first then you have both an RF (short aerial-type) cable and scart connecting the DVD to the TV?

If this is the case, and the TV picture is okay apart from on AV, then I'd guess the DVD has not been tuned in to the Sky RF. You have to 'tune in' the DVD recorder in the same way as you would a TV.

When you switch to DVD (thru AV on the TV) check out the DVD menus and see if they appear ghosty as well. If they look clear then I would try setting up the DVD tuning. (You're not tuning in the AV you're tuning the DVD to the sky+ box RF channels)

Thanks will give that a try and report back!