Re: TV Messenger

["Robert Crawshaw" <golcarbob@xxxxxxx>]

>The obvious monkey is that it fits "between a VCR and a
telly" - ie it sits
half-way along a SCART lead.

>This means that it ONLY overlays text when you're watching TV through
THAT
SCART lead.

>- it won't overlay over your TV's internal tuner (of course, with a
TiVo,
you probably don't) :-)
>- if you have a SCART-connected DVD player, you need to run it through
the
video (or vice versa, or get two of these boxes)
>- if you have an S-Video connected DVD player, then this won't overlay
on
top of that


Not nessecerally

I have the BT easicom bt3  version (same thing basically)
When i get a phone call, black box sends a voltage to pin 8 or whichever
it
is on the scart socket to switch the telly to eg: AV2
I still get the TV picture i was watching (picture darkens slightly),
no
matter what input device im watching, but i also get white text on the
screen with caller ID info, a few seconds later the text goes off and
im
left with the origional tv picture.


(I think) pretty sure thats how it works,   got me thinking
now.....better
investigate further


Robert
Crawshaw                
http://www.golcarbob.com

He who dies with the most toys wins

"If you haven't found a use for something yet, you haven't kept it
long
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