JVC DVD Recorder Mystery!!

[aero]

I bought a DVD recorder last Xmas - no problems until last week sometime:

It's an audio problem.
The DVD recorder is connected to the TV via a SCART lead going into ext 1 of the TV and the usual coaxial TV aerial.
Watching the TV on channels 1-5 is perfect- excellent sound and picture so the external aerial must be A1 going into the back of the DVD recorder and on into my TV via the coaxial lead.
The DVDrecorder will also play DVDs through the 'ext1 SCART' scart lead with absolutely no problems......

HOWEVER when I watch TV through the 'ext1 SCART' lead all the channels have perfect picture but terrible white noise type sound interference.
This obviously then means any recording of TV is appauling as there is no sound quality........

I am stumped as to the problem. For 6 months everything has been fine. No changes have been made to aerials/leads/tuning etc. Is it possible something has broken within the DVD recorder that deals purely with audio outputted down the SCART lead when no DVD is playing??????

Any help much appreciated before I try and send it all back to where it came from!!

Thanks for any help,
Rupert

[trevorw]

Has the scart lead worked loose some how, just mentioning it as I had a similiar problem on my FTV box, the weight of the scart had pulled it out just slightly and viola no sound, picture perfect though. Had me stumped for 2 days

[HankScorpio]

Do you have a JVC telly as well?

I had this the other week when somehow (nobody claims responsibility), it magically happened that "someone" managed to change the audio of the EXT1 scart so it came from another source, which happened to be noise, and was extremely annoying as the video was fine.

Long shot but you never know...

[GetCarter]

I get a lot of this sorta thing with my setup - I've found the only way to sort problems like this is to either unplug and re-plug everything (which should not logically work but often does) or if you can, go back to some 'default' settings.

A right royal pain in the bum is audio. I had an earth hum for ages, eventually had to get a boffin out who spent a day rewiring loads of kit and charged me a fortune.

...so - last resort - get a mate in who's clever, then you can dring beer whilst he fixes it.

[Bee_Jay]

My JVC recorder has just started with a little 'crackling' on the audio, sounds like the same thing.

Usually a complete power down of EVERYTHING and restart clears it, though not always - I am starting to worry...

[aero]

Thanks for the advice so far - I'll have to try the unplug everything when I get a minute!
The scarts are certainly home and dry.
It's interesting to hear someone else with a JVC recorder is getting the same noise!

I'm going to phone JVC when I have a chance,
I'll let you know how I get on,

cheers Rupert

[aero]

just did the turn everything off at the mains - it worked!!!!!!!!!

???????????????????????

Why I really don't know,

thanks again for the suggestions,

Rupert