Help! Trying to connect DVDR

cuffie

jem16 wrote:

Great news!

Have you managed to get it to store all the terrestial channels now?

No!!!!!!! Have just come back on here to say that in all our excitement no bloody channels are stored!!! Hubby said "I know, lets set something up...". We sit there in anticipation (me and the 3 kids....."what shall we set up daddy?" "wind in the willows"......great......) Then we find out no channels are stored! Have gone through set-up and lovely irritating grey screen says "no programmes stored". Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xx

jem16

OK.

First of all - do you have an ordinary TV aerial as well as your Sky dish?

Assuming you do, it should be connected to the RF In of the DVDR. Then another cable should go from RF out to your TV. Have you done this?

djohn2002uk

It sounds as though it can't store channels because it has no aerial input. You need to take the aerial lead out of the TV and connect it to the Sony. Then it can store all the channels it finds on that aerial lead.
But the best way is to put the aerial lead into the Sky box (RF In) then Sky Box (RF Out) to the Sony (RF In) and from the Sony (RF Out) to the TV. You then need to tune a channel on the TV to pick up the Sony.

cuffie

I am using one RF lead. One end is plugged into Aerial In on the DVDR and the other end is plugged into the Out on the TV.

jem16

djohn2002uk wrote:

You then need to tune a channel on the TV to pick up the Sony.

You would only do that if you want far inferior picture quality.

Scart for viewing is far better.

djohn2002uk

cuffie wrote:

I am using one RF lead. One end is plugged into Aerial In on the DVDR and the other end is plugged into the Out on the TV.

You are not giving the Sony a signal that way. Put the aerial lead that goes INTO your TV from the aerial, into the Sony and run the tuning again.

cuffie

djohn2002uk wrote:

It sounds as though it can't store channels because it has no aerial input. You need to take the aerial lead out of the TV and connect it to the Sony. Then it can store all the channels it finds on that aerial lead.
But the best way is to put the aerial lead into the Sky box (RF In) then Sky Box (RF Out) to the Sony (RF In) and from the Sony (RF Out) to the TV. You then need to tune a channel on the TV to pick up the Sony.

So I need 2 to use 2 RF cables? Sorry to appear thick...I can't see the aerial lead to take out of the TV. Our TV is a Sony Integrated Digital TV (although we currently use sky box for digital channels)- does that make any difference?

jem16

cuffie wrote:

I am using one RF lead. One end is plugged into Aerial In on the DVDR and the other end is plugged into the Out on the TV.

OK this is where your problem is.

You haven't told me if you have an ordinary TV aerial yet and I need to know this before going any further.

djohn2002uk

jem16 wrote:

You would only do that if you want far inferior picture quality.

Scart for viewing is far better.

He already said he had scart leads connected!
This was meant as a connection for RF which most people also connect.
Any fool knows scart is better!

jem16

cuffie wrote:

So I need 2 to use 2 RF cables? Sorry to appear thick...I can't see the aerial lead to take out of the TV. Our TV is a Sony Integrated Digital TV (although we currently use sky box for digital channels)- does that make any difference?

Your TV aerial may be in the back of your Sky box at the moment. Then again you perhaps don't have a TV aerial - you need to tell us this first.