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Originally Posted by buckaroo
Is there such a DVD deck? I notice when recording on my old DMR 55, the pic quality is not up to par. There is a noticable cross-hatching. I've been told on this great forum, that RGB pass-though prevents this. Can anyone suggest any new decks with this capability. Especially Panasonic brands if poss. 
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There seems to be some confusion here.
RGB Pass-through is a facility where RGB passes through from a source on an incoming scart and is passed out to the outgoing scart... as if the machine were invisible.. or not connected in the chain.
In other words it only applies to viewing
other sources, not the DVDR unit itself.
This is to be distinguished from RGB
Feed-through, where the RGB signal is actually taken into the machine and can be used by the machine, for recording in that quality, from an external source.
RGB Pass through does not apply at all to recordings that the machine makes itself using its own tuner...albeit these recordings can be fed to the TV in an RFB form ... but it requires fully wired scarts , and that it is fed into an RGB capable scart on the TV.
It is only recent TV sets that will have more than one RGB capable scart. Conventionally in the past there has only been one , irrespective of the number of scart sockets.
As it happens the E55 is capable of handling both RGB pass-through and true RGB input capability.
So you need to be clear about what sort of recordings you are referring to and the way you are connected to the TV.
The cross hatching is much more likely to be an artefact introduced by interference on the analogue signal.
Indeed you would not have this problem on a newer machine ... assuming you can receive Freeview, which is all the newer Panasonics are able to receive.... as this sort of patterning will not be present on digital transmissions.
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