One benefit of running the DVD through the Video is that if you have an analogue/co-ax out of the DVD player you can still record digitaly encrypted DVD's! You can't via a scart though. Otherwise I agree with Clinton - don't run the DVD through the video. I have set up my video to be purely 'old tech' now and the DVD and cable box are connected via multiple scarts.

Effectively the video is out of the equation as far as digital reproduction is concerned - The tapes are not good enough anyway. So, we have TV ariel into the cable box, out of the cable box, into the vid, out of the vid and into the TV. We can tape digitaly encrypted PPV TV shows as well - not that we would of course;-)

On the digital side, scart out of the cable box into scart 1 on the TV. Scart 2 on the TV is connected to the DVD player/sound system with a scart/6 audio jack lead, so that everything played on the DVD is in surround sound and we can select whether we have anything else on the TV in pseudo surround as well. The Game cube is plugged into the second audio in on the surround as well so we can make the house shake when killing aliens...;-)

Clear as mud? You should see how the wireless network links in as well!

Am I getting too geekey as I get older?

Cheers

DtG