SCART leads

["tannedblondbloke" <tannedblondbloke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone - interesting site, giving me lots of ideas, but waiting
for my finances to improve before doing anything!  In the meantime, I
have a question, please.

Over the holidays I added some SCART leads to my sister's home cinema
set-up.  Each box (digi, video and DVD) now has a SCART lead to the
telly, and there is a SCART lead from digi to video.

The TV has now started misbehaving.  Say you select the digibox on
the telly.  That's fine for a few a minutes and it sudenly switches
to video.  A few minutes later, it suddenly switches back to digi
again.  I think I read somewhere that it is down to one of the pins
on the SCART - when it goes high, it forces the TV to select the
source corresponding to that SCART, and I guess the telly gets
confused if a high signal is present for multiple sources.

As I see it there are potentially 3 solutions:

The simplest, and what I have told them to do for now, is to make
sure that any boxes not being used are put into standby.  This is not
a long term solution, as for example, this won't help if you want to
watch one source and video another, as all 3 boxes would be on.

The ideal solution would be if there is a "soft" method ie if
there
is a menu option somewhere to disable this behaviour - I don't think
the TV - a Sony - supports this, but I don't have the manual to hand,
it's at my sister's.

This leaves a somewhat more drastic method - removing the offending
pin from the SCART leads.  This raises some questions - which pin?
Will it cause complications? And what physically is the best way to
achieve this without damaging the rest of the lead?

Thanks very much.

TBB



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