Wanted: Amiga RGB - SCART cable

[Martyn]

@spirantho

Incidentally, if you want to run a SCART cable on an A2000 or A1500 then you'll need to rewire it to use the +12V line instead of the +5V line (which isn't connected in these Amigas on the RGB port). SCART has tolerance from about 3V to 15V or something.

They're really a very good idea, especially as you can chain things up: for instance,
Satellite Decrypter
to
Satellite tuner
to
VCR
to
TV
to
another TV.

That's very interesting, could you help me with this?

If I connect my A500 directly to my TV scart input (it only has one) I get a normal picture.

If I connect my VCR to my TV with scart, then connect my A500 to my VCR with scart (through it's 2nd scart connector), the amiga picture is completely washed-out grey, so much so that you can hardly see there's a picture there at all.

Does anyone have any idea why?

Thanks,
Martyn.

[Martyn]

@spirantho

If switching connectors doesn't work, maybe between us we can find something else wrong, but if it works with your TV it's probably your VCR that's misbehaving... or you're using it wrong.

Thanks for the reply.  I think I tried swapping connectors at the time.  I think it may be the VCR.  I wondered if it was a macrovision problem, that for some reason the auto gain control wasn't kicking in.  But knowing how macrovision works, that doesn't really make sense (does it?).

But then what really makes me think it's a vcr problem (and maybe macrovision related) is that i'm unable to watch my dvd played through the vcr scart sockets either - i get the MV light-dark screen effect.

Annoying.

Martyn.