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Jim Lesurf wrote:
It also seems very odd to me. I can't see that it saves them much money
as they are already employing switching, and the absence will deter
those who are aware of the problem from buying their unit! If I'd
realised this was not standard for pass through I'd have looked for an
alternative. Now I have the particular box I'll 'fix' the problem with
an external switch, but this is a measure I did not expect to be
required when I bought the receiver.

The main snag is that all Scarts are not alike. If you stick to stereo
audio and composite video, then they act as an in/out port. But once you
go to RGB or S-Video, they become an in *or* out. So a fully wired multi
socket adaptor unit can only be used for either ins or outs. And then
there's the problem with simply paralleling video circuits - they become
double terminated.

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