Amstrad DRX100 Sky STB. Does it pass RGB?

[Mikeb_78]

My Grundig box has recently been replaced with an Amstrad drx100 Sky Digital box...And no I'm not happy about it... :(

I noticed today that my DVD player will not play in RGB looped thru the Amstrad STB, but it did with the Grundig.

Does anyone know if the Amstrad SHOULD pass an RGB signal?

There is a noticable quality degradation with this box compared to the old one. I might call and cancel and get NTL, as the quality has to be better than this!

As I MAY get NTL, does anyone know what boxes they provide, and do they pass a RGB signal on the 2nd scart?

Thanks

[craig@rewind]

Mike,

Why don't you run your Digibox through your DVD? Has your DVD player only got 1 SCART socket?

Have you made sure RGB is turned on in the Sky EPG? Go to Services -> System Setup - Picture Settings and change Video Output from PAL to RGB.

But in answer to your question yes, the basics of the Digiboxes are the same no matter which make it is.

[Mikeb_78]

If all the boxes are the same, then the Amstrad I have must be faulty. RGB is enabled in the menu's, but my DVD player and PS2 won't output RGB like they did when connected through the Grundig box.

I've got the STB -> TV, DVD->STB, PS2->DVD

You're right, I could hook the DVD to the TV and the STB to that, but then the PS2 would still be in composite.

I think I may just cancel my Sky subscription all together if they can't supply decent boxes to customers. :rolleyes:

[craig@rewind]

I take it all the SCART leads are connected securely? (Sorry to teach you how to suck eggs).

[Kryten]

Originally posted by Mikeb_78
My Grundig box has recently been replaced with an Amstrad drx100 Sky Digital box...And no I'm not happy about it... :(

I noticed today that my DVD player will not play in RGB looped thru the Amstrad STB, but it did with the Grundig.

Does anyone know if the Amstrad SHOULD pass an RGB signal?

There is a noticable quality degradation with this box compared to the old one. I might call and cancel and get NTL, as the quality has to be better than this!

As I MAY get NTL, does anyone know what boxes they provide, and do they pass a RGB signal on the 2nd scart?

Thanks

I am currently on my 4th sky box and it is an Amstrad, mine wont pass RGB, at the moment it ont pass anything!!! This has to be the least reliable/slowest sky box I have ever seen :( They are coming out to replace it on Saturday (and that took a lot of doing as they just wanted to send an engineer to download new software to it which I already did!)

[Mikeb_78]

Hi Craig,

Yeah, that's the second thing I checked (after checking RGB in Sky menu). :)

You say that this box SHOULD have RGB though? :confused: I might phone Sky and see what they can do.

Or, I guess I could just have the box going to the second scart which is composite (the sky picture is rubbish anyway, so RGB don't make too much difference), and tyhe DVD player and PS2 thru the RGB enabled first scart on the TV...

I'm fairly decided though now that I'm going to go with NTL...If someone can confirm NTL's digital box in the Reading area does pass RGB through the 2nd scart, then I'd order it today. I've got an NTL point already right by my TV.

[Mikeb_78]

Originally posted by Kryten


I am currently on my 4th sky box and it is an Amstrad, mine wont pass RGB, at the moment it ont pass anything!!! This has to be the least reliable/slowest sky box I have ever seen :( They are coming out to replace it on Saturday (and that took a lot of doing as they just wanted to send an engineer to download new software to it which I already did!)

I've noticed it's slow too. It also seems to want to go back to channel 999 sometimes when I change channels. The picture is definatley not as good at the Grundig box I had before it.

Thing is, when they replaced the Grundig, the engineer brought a nice looking Sony box, but the card reader was faulty so they came back a few days later, but this time brought an Amstrad. :rolleyes:

[kcxdev]

Originally posted by Mikeb_78

Thing is, when they replaced the Grundig, the engineer brought a nice looking Sony box, but the card reader was faulty so they came back a few days later, but this time brought an Amstrad. :rolleyes:

bummer! how unlucky is that?! :rolleyes:

I have a first gen amstrad and never had any problems other than the usual software glitches. Has anyone seen the new DRX300 (http://www.amstrad.com/HTML/drx300.htm), it actually looks pretty nice and I'm not really into silver components

[Kryten]

That new Amstrad box does look good, and if it actually works may be a good box!

[Mikeb_78]

Is anyone able to tell me if the NTL digital boxes pass thru RGB on the 2nd scart?

[pjweston]

I believe that both variants of the Pace Di4001 boxes used in the original NTL areas will only pass through composite (and even then only when the STB is itself set to output composite).