V!rg!n: when is digital TV not digital?

custardy

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Thank you so much for your very patient guidance and advice everyone.

The set-top box appears to have two SCART outlets neither of which are currently being used as the cable connecting the box to the telly is one of those RF doodads. I appear to have two choices: either nip out and buy a SCART lead or spend twenty quid on a cheap Freeview box until I get Freesat. Naturally, in true MSE stylee I'll be trying the cheapest option first.

Sorry if I've sounded completely thick about all this but I'm a woman and electronics is not an area of particular interest or expertise. However, I do understand a bit more about it than before I started this thread. Cheers folks, it's very much appreciated!

ask friends & family. nearly everyone I know will have a scart kicking around from TV swaps/upgrades

robredz

gat a scart lead, and plug one end into the box in the usually top socket marked TV, the other is for connecting a scart to a vhs , and the other into the TV scart. this bypasses the need to "tune" the set to RF output channel the box is using. Should be a slightly better picture via scart also. You then access the box via the TV AV channels.

BitterAndTwisted

custardy wrote: »

Ask friends & family. Nearly everyone I know will have a scart kicking around from TV swaps/upgrades

I was way ahead of you one that one, Custardy. Just came back after a weekend away staying with chums and I've liberated a spare one from them. Will get the thing hooked up in the morning when I have some daylight.

New, improved and bigger TV! Can't wait.

Many thanks!