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"A leads question"

Excuse my ignorance, please.

I used to think my DVD player was on the blink, but it turns out it's the lead connecting the TV to the Video. On some DVDs I get a nasty flickering on the telly which tends to not go away.

Now, I know one end is SCART, but the other end... isn't. I think it's RF, it's just like a normal TV connection, a round port. Is it RF? Does that mean I need to buy an RF to Scart lead?

Thanks.

Some DVD players allow you to disable macrovision (doesn't that seem a bit strange?)

Came in handy when I had to record loads of DVD footage onto VHS for a 10 minute presentation. Highly illegal though. Ironically enough, my tutors congratulated me on an excellent presentation instead of castrating me for breaking copyright laws. And they're ALWAYS having a go at us for copyright.

Snuggly, you sure it's not macrovision kicking in?

If you run a DVD player through a VCR, there's something called macrovision that messes up the visual/audio transmission to the tv.. basically so you can't record DVD's to video.

Best thing to do would be to bypass the video and just plug it into your tv. If all dvds play then, then it's just macrovision.

If you can't plug your leads into your tv, and if it IS macrovision, then you could try and get a decoder box, which is about £50ish. Hella expensive, and probably more worth you thinking about investing in a tv with scart sockets.

My exceedingly large brain and I believe it's an S-Video lead.

Your TV doesnt have a scart socket? How old is it?!

You big girl.
:p

My friends see the widescreen TV in my room hooked up to a PS2, an X-Box, a VCR, Sky Digital and a hi-fi with two large speakers (which, in turn, is hooked up to this PC) and ask me to help them with their stuff, when in reality I know nothing and my brother does it all.

I can hook up a console (old ones like the 64 or new ones like the X-Box/PS2) and a video player... but that's about it. I'm terrible with technical stuff, despite being on a course where everything we do is technical.

Quite possibly.

*Loads shotgun*

What?
I've gotta join in, I'm bored.

Well I can't have you mocking my angry hair like that. It's just not on Mr. Man!

Think Snuggly will throw a hissy fit cos we've hijacked his thread?
*Puts on her balaclava*

Mystique wrote:
> Well, I did tell your mum I didn't want to do it in that god damned
> rose bush but that hussy overpowered me.

Mother jokes? Myst, I’m disappointed.

*Shakes head*

> Now, kiss. My. Feet.

Stop. Moving. Your. Knockers. In. That. Hypnotic. Manner...Must...Kiss...Feet...

Well, I did tell your mum I didn't want to do it in that god damned rose bush but that hussy overpowered me.

Now, kiss. My. Feet.