Re: Re: Tivo SCART control...

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

This will be, I presume, exactly the same as turning it off in the
menu...

I'd still like Tivo to have control over the input switching, just not to
be 
quite so greed about it... Ideally, Tivo would assert the scart function
switching pin (pin 8 is it?) whenever it needed to switch the input, but
then *release* the pin straight away... - e.g. assert pin 8 momentarily,
rather than permanently... I presume this would switch the TV when the pin
was high, and would (hopefully), leave the TV in the new mode when it was
released, (so that the TV wouldn't automatically revert back to its
internal 
tuner straight away...)

I'm sure I have seen other devices behave like this... they will switch the
TV to the correct SCART input when "play" is pressed, but I can
still change 
the TV to another input if I want to... If I press "stop" then
"play" again 
on the player, then the TV will switch again... and so on... This suggests
that these devices use the scart switching signal momentarily, but then
release it once the input has been switched, so that control returns to me,
and override is available...

any thoughts?

Paul G.









>From: "Patrick Lidstone <patrick@xxxxxxx>"
<patrick@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Tivo SCART control...
>Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:26:22 -0000
>
>--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@h...>
wrote:
> > Anyone got any thoughts on adjusting the behaviour of Tivo's
SCART
>control,
> > - it's a little bit too "aggressive" for my
liking...
> >
> > On my TV, with Tivo's SCART control turned on, It completely
siezes
>the TV
> > and absolutely refuses to give it up no matter what.... The
effect
>of this
> > is that I can never change the TV's selected input to another
SCART
>input,
> > or to it's internal tuner - I can't even bring up the TV's
menu
>system. The
> > only way I can make the TV display *anything* other than what
Tivo
>is
> > putting out, is to put Tivo into standby, when it finally
>relinquishes
> > control.
>
>Try chopping Pin 8 on the TiVo SCART lead - this controls
auto-select
>of the SCART source by the TV.
>
>See here: http://www.whatvideotv.com/articles/frame.html?
>http://www.whatvideotv.com/articles/hardware/200102_scart.shtml
>
>Patrick
>


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