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Hi..i have as most here 2 sat boxes, 1 dvd recorder and 1 tv and i'm
trying to figure the best way to hook them all up.
Up untill now i've been swapping scarts with my technomate and my
dvd recorder but after upgrading my recorder i'm looking to set them
up so i can avoid this.
My samsung LCD has 2 scarts-1 hdmi
sky box 2 scarts
technomate 5400 2 scarts
my new sony dvd recorder 2 scarts 1 hdmi

I have a scart splitter cable but never seem to be able to get
it together, with one of these cables say i have my 2 sat boxes
in the splitter then into my dvd if 1 box is switch.

My new sony dvd recorder has 1 scart for line in-sky box and 1 scart for line out to tv, I tried just using this scart for my second box-technomate 5400 but wont work. The line 2 in on my recorder has red white and yellow as does my technomate.
any tips

thanks

MARK