G'day Hamish,



05 Aug 96 22:17, Hamish Moffatt wrote to All:



 HM> I've got a Panasonic TV, a model TC2970S according to the main; 76cm

 HM> or so, stereo, DSP surround, etc. Anyway it has all the usual AV

 HM> inputs, but even when I connect a stereo signal to the AV ins, have

 HM> the AV switch set to stereo on the back, the AV is still always in

 HM> mono.



This may seem like a very dumb question (but from practical experience

I assure you it isn't), but you are not relying on the LED stereo

indicator to tell you it is in stereo are you ?  Because if you are

you are fooling youself, as this indicator is activated by the stereo

decoder in the TV tuner/IF, and this gets bypassed when using the AV

inputs.  You'll be getting a stereo output ok, but you'll not have the

LED to tell you so. (I dunno why, but far too many people rely on this

LED rather than their EARS to determine if it is stereo or not -  and

IMO stereo is wasted on such people anyway).



Oh, FWIW, if you hook up your HI-FI VCR to the TV using just the RF

cable you'll NOT get Stereo from it at all, as TTBOMK all RF

converters used in VCR's are only mono anyway.



Cheers,

Rod



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