Media center won't recognise aerial

GreenNotM

espresso wrote:

:doh:

My mistake.

Happens - was a fuzzy pic etc - but is it the same as an aerial lead from video to tv aerial socket ?

Perhaps Ashok you still have a similiar lead in a box somewhere.... or can pop to Currys/Comet/etc tomorrow for one, if it is ...

Ashok_2

GreenNotM wrote:

Happens - was a fuzzy pic etc - but is it the same as an aerial lead from video to tv aerial socket ?

Perhaps Ashok you still have a similiar lead in a box somewhere.... or can pop to Currys/Comet/etc tomorrow for one, if it is ...

Yep, I'll have a look, do you know what the lead is called? Thanks again for help!

roger56

espresso wrote:

Looks like an aerial co-ax to Phono adaptor.

Top one is.

Bottom one is F-type to phono. F-type is usually used on CATV / NTL /Sky box etc.

Ashok_2

roger56 wrote:

Top one is.

Bottom one is F-type to phono. F-type is usually used on CATV / NTL /Sky box etc.

So is it the top one I need to connect a TV aerial to laptop?

roger56

Yes, TV aerial leads use co-ax connectors, so if the laptop port for TV in is really a "phono" socket. Double check your laptop instructions on this.

BUT

Does the phono socket have a yellow centre?
I'm being cautious because yellow phono sockets are usually for "video in/out"
signals which are very different to the signal from an aerial.

I've just removed the coax adaptor from my PC TV card "TV" in and the
plug at the other end (which plugs into the "tuner" module) looks very much like a phono one but it is a slightly smaller diameter and does not fit a true phono socket, so looking at the original photo again, I believe the top picture is a coax to "small phono like" plug.

The outside diameter of the true phono female socket is just over 8mm
The outside diameter of the smaller "phono like" female socket is just over 6mm but I don't know what the real name of one of these sockets is...

help someone!!

Ashok_2

roger56 wrote:

Yes, TV aerial leads use co-ax connectors, so if the laptop port for TV in is really a "phono" socket. Double check your laptop instructions on this.

BUT

Does the phono socket have a yellow centre?
I'm being cautious because yellow phono sockets are usually for "video in/out"
signals which are very different to the signal from an aerial.

I've just removed the coax adaptor from my PC TV card "TV" in and the
plug at the other end (which plugs into the "tuner" module) looks very much like a phono one but it is a slightly smaller diameter and does not fit a true phono socket, so looking at the original photo again, I believe the top picture is a coax to "small phono like" plug.

The outside diameter of the true phono female socket is just over 8mm
The outside diameter of the smaller "phono like" female socket is just over 6mm but I don't know what the real name of one of these sockets is...

help someone!!

Yup the phono socket has a yellow centre - if thats what you were asking lol!