No mention in the handbook, but does anyone know if the VCR SCART on the 
Humax PVR 9200 will allow RGB pass through from a DVD player?

The reason I ask is that I have recently purchased a LCD Philips TV which 
has twin SCART (along with two HDMI sockets).

However just as with so many other devices I have encountered over the years 
it only has one SCART which will accept a RGB input, this got me wondering 
if there is any technical reason that I'm not familiar with why this should 
be so? as I can't see why it would pose that much difficulty or additional 
expense to incorporate into all of the sockets, or at least make it an 
option selectable from the main menu, surely something which one would 
expect to find especially on more expensive pieces of kit.

TIA Ivan

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:52:30 +0100, Ivan wrote:
> No mention in the handbook, but does anyone know if the VCR SCART on the 
> Humax PVR 9200 will allow RGB pass through from a DVD player?

Yes it will.

> The reason I ask is that I have recently purchased a LCD Philips TV which 
> has twin SCART (along with two HDMI sockets).
>
> However just as with so many other devices I have encountered over the years 
> it only has one SCART which will accept a RGB input, this got me wondering 
> if there is any technical reason that I'm not familiar with why this should 
> be so? as I can't see why it would pose that much difficulty or additional 
> expense to incorporate into all of the sockets, or at least make it an 
> option selectable from the main menu, surely something which one would 
> expect to find especially on more expensive pieces of kit.
>
> TIA Ivan
>
>

smb wrote:
|| On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:52:30 +0100, Ivan wrote:
||| No mention in the handbook, but does anyone know if the VCR SCART
||| on the Humax PVR 9200 will allow RGB pass through from a DVD player?
||
|| Yes it will.

Many thanks, I will now feed the DVD player into my Humax instead of SCART 
two on the TV.

||
||| The reason I ask is that I have recently purchased a LCD Philips TV
||| which has twin SCART (along with two HDMI sockets).
|||
||| However just as with so many other devices I have encountered over
||| the years it only has one SCART which will accept a RGB input, this
||| got me wondering if there is any technical reason that I'm not
||| familiar with why this should be so? as I can't see why it would
||| pose that much difficulty or additional expense to incorporate into
||| all of the sockets, or at least make it an option selectable from
||| the main menu, surely something which one would expect to find
||| especially on more expensive pieces of kit.
|||
||| TIA Ivan

I guess there's not much you can do about it if not, but I wonder if
it will do so in standby when you're not using it?  I've known STBs
not pass RF through in standby, let alone RGB.

More wasted CO2, probably ...

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:45:01 +0100, "Ivan" <ivan'H'older@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> smb wrote:
> || On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:52:30 +0100, Ivan wrote:
> ||| No mention in the handbook, but does anyone know if the VCR SCART
> ||| on the Humax PVR 9200 will allow RGB pass through from a DVD player?
> ||
> || Yes it will.
> 
> Many thanks, I will now feed the DVD player into my Humax instead of SCART 
> two on the TV.

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:33:05 +0100, Java Jive  wrote:

>I guess there's not much you can do about it if not, but I wonder if
>it will do so in standby when you're not using it?  I've known STBs
>not pass RF through in standby, let alone RGB.

I'm pretty sure my 8000 doesn't (in standby).
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:41:00 +0100, David Quinton wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:33:05 +0100, Java Jive  wrote:
>
>>I guess there's not much you can do about it if not, but I wonder if
>>it will do so in standby when you're not using it?  I've known STBs
>>not pass RF through in standby, let alone RGB.
>
> I'm pretty sure my 8000 doesn't (in standby).

My 8000 did.  I used to have the DVD pass through the 8000, which in turn 
went through the 9200.  Worked fine, regardless of whether the 8000 or 
9200 were in standby or not.  The only problem was if the 8000 kicked into 
life to make a recording part way through watching a DVD.  I would have to 
stop and restart the DVD.  Not a problem with the 9200, which has a button 
to switch between sources.