which scart switchbox?

[ramlin]

Hi, like a few people on this forum I have a TV with only 2 scart connections, one being rgb and the other being s-video. My digibox is connected to the rgb scart connection of my tv and my dvd player is connected to the other (s-video) scart input.
I am therefore thinking of buying a scart switchbox so as to enable the one scart rgb input on my TV to be shared between the digibox and the dvd player. I have found two from argos, one being automatic (it's called "Acoustic Research Electronic SCART Block") and can be found at http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...ID=10294381&sto

reference number 534/2639

and the other (called "SCART Video Unit"), which is manual, can be found at http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...productId=60608

and has a reference number 534/2361


What, if any, have been people's experience of t these products, which one would you recommend and, more importantly, do they work?

Many thanks for your assistance.
Cliff

[lordjarjar]

Just be wary when you order your SCART switches that they are fully pinned in all the inputs and outputs. I have to purchase 3 times from 3 different places before I got the right one. The first 3 way SCART box with select buttons was partially wired for SVHS and audio only (this was never mentioned in the catalog), the second box I ordered was fully wired in the 1st input only and the other 2 was partially wired for SVHS! I managed to get the right one at my 3rd attempt. Look for the specification of fully wired for RGB in all inputs.