Linking TV, Freesat and DVD Recorder

PerfectChristmas

Hi all, just a quick question please. I'll try write it as clearly as possible.

My sky sub notice period comes to a finish this weekend so I have bought a Humax HDR-1100S Freesat to take its place.

I had my sky+ linked to a DVD recorder for the odd thing that I like to record off and keep. I've unplugged the wires from my sky box and put everything into the freesat box and all is working perfectly. Aside from one thing - no scart slot. The scart was how I had my DVD recorder connected to my sky.

Whilst the freesat has no scart slot, it does have the RCA connection (red, white, yellow). Would purchasing an RCA that ends in a scart solve my problem and allow me to record from the freesat to the dvd recorder or am I missing something obvious?

Thanks in advance.

kwikbreaks

I believe it should work. Make sure that the scart on the lead is connected as an output rather than input. Some are just connected up with a composite lead and have a switch on them.

Doesn't your DVD recorder have composite in? If so you could just use a composite lead - these things seems to breed as I've a box full and don't recall ever buying one so you maybe would already have one.

enfield_freddy

scart to phone , switchable between in and out , http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SCART-To-3-RCA-Composite-Phono-SVHS-S-Video-Adaptor-In-Out-Switch-GOLD-/351024723130?hash=item51bab434ba


£1.49 free delivery


with leads http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-5m-Scart-to-3-x-Phono-Cable-IN-OUT-Switchable-Triple-RCA-Composite-Lead-Switch-/400866490229?hash=item5d55813775


£1.99 free delivery

PerfectChristmas

Fabulous, thank you both.

Stupidly I never checked the dvd recorder for RCA connections before I bought the scart/rca wire. Ah well, it's only £3 and is being delivered tomorrow thanks to Amazon so if it doesn't work I'll try the rca connection.

Thanks again

PerfectChristmas

Just to update you - and to let anyone who's in the same box know - it worked perfectly and if anything I'm actually getting a better quality of picture from the scart/RCA than the scart/scart connection the sky hd had.

Thank you again