This is weird!
I recently moved to another appartment which meant that the coax cable from the dish to the Sky Digibox (a Panasonic 35) is now 30 meters rather than the 15 that I had previously.
I also connected the Digibox to my PC to capture video through the TV RGB Scart through a keene electronics Scart RGB to SVideo converter.
I noticed then that the signal quality dropped and started experiencing picture break-ups on some channels (eg Sky One etc).
At the time I thought that this was due to reduced signal from the long cable length.
Yesterday, I decided to do some maintenance on my PC and I plugged in the Sky Digibox through the VCR Scart to the TV Directly so that I can still watch things while working on the PC.
To my amazement the low signal issue went away and the Sky Digibox was performing flawlessly.
As soon as I connected a fully wired Scart cable on the TV Scart of the Digibox the signal quality would plummet causing picture break-ups.
Has anyone experienced anything like this?
In my 10 years of sat experience I haven't seen anything like this.
Why would the video output stage affect the tuner circuitry is beyond me.
Is my digibox broken or should I invest in a top quality Scart lead?
(Note that I tried 3 different Scart cables of averable quality with the same result)
Looking for ideas.....
I recently moved to another appartment which meant that the coax cable from the dish to the Sky Digibox (a Panasonic 35) is now 30 meters rather than the 15 that I had previously.
I also connected the Digibox to my PC to capture video through the TV RGB Scart through a keene electronics Scart RGB to SVideo converter.
I noticed then that the signal quality dropped and started experiencing picture break-ups on some channels (eg Sky One etc).
At the time I thought that this was due to reduced signal from the long cable length.
Yesterday, I decided to do some maintenance on my PC and I plugged in the Sky Digibox through the VCR Scart to the TV Directly so that I can still watch things while working on the PC.
To my amazement the low signal issue went away and the Sky Digibox was performing flawlessly.
As soon as I connected a fully wired Scart cable on the TV Scart of the Digibox the signal quality would plummet causing picture break-ups.
Has anyone experienced anything like this?
In my 10 years of sat experience I haven't seen anything like this.
Why would the video output stage affect the tuner circuitry is beyond me.
Is my digibox broken or should I invest in a top quality Scart lead?
(Note that I tried 3 different Scart cables of averable quality with the same result)
Looking for ideas.....