Mostly guesses here:
What about the aerials? The DVD book says to the sky box and the TV. The TV book doesn’t. They are both Sony!
Telly just wants an aerial input – it doesn’t care where it comes from as long as it works. This will allow you to watch terrestrial tv while sky is off, or while the dvd records sky and you want to watch terrestrial. DVD on the other hand, wants the signal before it gets to the telly and so it’s shown as such in that book
Forgot to say that the DVd will record if the telly is on but not off.
Sounds like you don’t have an aerial lead into the dvd from the wall (into RF in), so it’s taking the signal from the telly somehow but that’s only passing through when it’s on (the connection to the telly should run from the dvd’s RF out socket). Is there another aerial lead you can run from wall to dvd input (RF in)?
I have not touched any settings since the cable swap and have never even heard of scart controls. They just seach and find each other.
SCART control is within the sky setup menu somewhere and it allows the sky box to demand the tv’s attention when it switches on. (Your dvd may also have this and if so – ours is an attention whore and “holds” the telly whenever it’s not on standby, so you need to go to standby before the sky can get a grip)
I’d run:
sat dish to sky box
SCART from sky box to telly
SCART from sky box (“video” scart socket)to DVD
SCART from dvd to telly 2nd scart socket
aerial co-ax lead from wall to dvd
(signal may pass to telly down scart anyway, if not use additional aerial coax lead from dvd to telly
this will allow scart switching by both sky and dvd if they both can do this and will also allow you to watch terrestrial telly while taping sky (or vice versa)
I THINK