OK, I have a problem with getting the right picture to come out of my TV from a Hard disc recorder.

Roof aerial goes to an amplifier/splitter in the loft to distribute signal round the house.

TV has 3 scart sockets

Sky box has one scart ouput direct to the TV, and another output feeds back up to the splitter in the loft, so any TV in the house can wacth the channel currently set on the Sky box.

I also have an Eltax hard disc recorder which takes the input from the splitter to the normal RF aerial input (i.e. in theory including the distributed Sky channel). However, I can't tune to the Sky channel through this. No idea why, when I can tune other TVs in the house to pick it up. Ideas?

If I connect the Sky box's second scart to the HDR's input scart and select Scart as the channel to display on the HDR, then the TV picture constantly flicks between the selected Sky channel and whatever is selected on the TV itself.

What I want to be able to do is:

1. When I choose, view the HDR setup info on the TV screen so I can set to record, etc. This already works OK for "normal" channels, just not when the Sky box is connected to the HDR directly by Scart.

2. Record off a Sky channel and watch a terrestrial channel at the same time.

Any ideas on how I can either get the HDR to tune to the Sky channel on the RF input, or stop the flicking between HDR and TV if the Sky box is connected by scart?

The alternative is to pay someone to come and look at it...

Thanks in advance

First disc pin 8 in the scart this will stop the auto change on the box.
second
tune the output channel of you recorder to a clear channel in your rf chain do the same to the sky box and make sure they are far enough away from the adjacent channels as not to cause a herringbone pattern.

tune televisors to these channels and you then should see all the various outputs on seperate tvs

Thanks.

1. I discovered by trial and error when I found a spare scart that only had a few of the pins in it.

2. I can see how to tune the recorder to a spare channel, but how do I tune the output of the Sky to a different channel?

Cheers,

Simon