ALDI Video Sender £19.99 from 22/12/05

DUNDEEMAN

can someone confirm that the tv and screen sending the information has to be switched on so that the receiving tv screen can show the picture being transmitted.

tdodd

DUNDEEMAN wrote:

can someone confirm that the tv and screen sending the information has to be switched on so that the receiving tv screen can show the picture being transmitted.

You would have an odd setup in order to need the "sending" TV turned on.

Normally you connect the Scart passthrough block from the TX unit to the back of a signal source like a Sky box, cable box or even a VCR or DVD player. Then you connect from the back of the block to the TV with a Scart cable. Whether the TV is on or off should make no difference to the signal source outputting its signal for the TX unit to send. Of course you need your digibox/cable box/vcr/dvd turned on for the signal to be available but the TV has nothing to do with it. The passthrough connector should not be plugged into the back of the TV - it should be plugged into the back of the signal source.

Some TVs have the ability to route the signal from one of its inputs as an output to one of the TV's Scart sockets. Mine has this feature. For the output to work the TV does need to be turned on. So there might be a theoretical need to turn the TV on if this is how you have chosen to connect your equipment but it is an unusual setup.

Joe_Millionaire

tdodd wrote:

Joe, what help are you looking for? You haven't described what your problem is.

I can not get my sender to work
I.e I can not get my Sky onto the upstairs tv......................

I have described the set up that i have the leads

thanks

tdodd

Joe, your connections sound correct to me. Check that you have the channel switch set to the same channel on both the TX and RX units. Other than that the only other things are - have you connected the power adapters for both TX and RX units and turned the power on? Finally, is the TV at the RX end definitely set to the right AV input?

If all of that is OK and still you have no picture then my guess is that yout TX or RX is FUBAR and needs to be replaced.

Joe_Millionaire

tdodd wrote:

Finally, is the TV at the RX end definitely set to the right AV input?

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mk-donald

tdodd wrote:

Normally you connect the Scart passthrough block from the TX unit to the back of a signal source like a Sky box, cable box or even a VCR or DVD player. Then you connect from the back of the block to the TV with a Scart cable. Whether the TV is on or off should make no difference to the signal source outputting its signal for the TX unit to send. Of course you need your digibox/cable box/vcr/dvd turned on for the signal to be available but the TV has nothing to do with it. The passthrough connector should not be plugged into the back of the TV - it should be plugged into the back of the signal source..

And from my own working configuration can confirm that the 'out' end of the Aldi SCART gizmo does NOT even need a cable attached for it to work. As was able to plug the gizmo into the (unused) VCR SCART on a NTL Cable box and it happily picked up pix to Tx even without a scart cable plugged into it.

RedOnRed

Does anyone else get a rolling band of interference on their receiving TV with this?

gromituk

re mk-donald: You will probably find that the pictures look rather too bright, though, because there will be no "termination" provided by whatever the SCART lead normally connects to. The SCART adaptor cannot terminate the signal itself, or you'd get double termination (pictures too dark) with a TV connected as well.

gromituk

RedOnRed: sounds like interference from another appliance, such as a low-energy light bulb. You could try changing the path between tx and rx, by repositioning one or both.

tdodd

Joe_Millionaire wrote:

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The RX unit connects to the TV via a Scart lead. How many Scart sockets does your TV have - 1, 2, 3, 0? Scart input sockets are normally referred to as AV1, AV2, AV3 etc. or EXT1, EXT2 and so on. If you're using a Scart connection then you need to be on an AV channel, not TV channel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc.. If you have two Scart sockets then try switching the connection to another Scart socket or change the AV channel.

Or from your original post should I infer that you only have one Scart socket on the TV and there is a VCR connected to that? If that's the case then you need a new TV with more than one AV input, or a Scart switch box or to connect the RX Scart to the VCR and feed the signal from that on to the TV via Scart (assuming you VCR has two Scart sockets), or via RF coax if it only has one Scart socket. If you are using the VCR to pass the signal through to the TV then the VCR must be turned on and "tuned" to the AV/Scart input that the RX is connected to.

From the information you have posted it should all work, unless it is broken, but maybe there is more you haven't told us??????