Perhaps I'm laying it on a bit thick, the signficance of the new JVC DVD Recorder actually doing the job, but I think it's really important to appreciate exactly what's happening here.

Please remember that with my previous DVD recorder, not only could I not record the full Domesday picture showing the BBC overlay, I couldn't record anything coming out of the BBC's RGB socket at all - it just didn't show up! I'm sure you will have seen my Screenshot Quality page, which still talks about the pre-JVC-DVD-recorder scenario. I had to use composite video with the little colour capacitor added to get a decent picture recorded, but that system isn't any use for Domesday.

I know it serves me right for buying a cheap & nasty DVD recorder in November 2006 in the first place, but I didn't know any better back then, did I? It took me nigh on four years to discover that the reason it wasn't working was because the machine wasn't wired for RGB input, and as soon as I'd had this revelation, I made amends!

Just to labour the point for the final time: the picture you are seeing above is being recorded from the LV-ROM player, not from the BBC. The Master is connected via its 6-pin DIN lead to the back of the LV-ROM player, and the JVC DVD Recorder is connected to the LV-ROM player via the player's SCART connector and then, so I can see what's going on, the current DVD picture is being displayed on the Goodmans telly via SCART from the output lead on the DVD recorder.

Or, if you will, putting it a little more tersely: t'works!

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