Cable confusion-hook what to what?

martin57

Hi folks,

I have just got a Humax hd freeveiw box today and having a bit of trouble deciding how to hook the lot up so that everything is working.

1 Philips crt tv has 2 scarts (both occupied by direct scart from sky box and a cctv camera,

2 Rca in (yellow red and white at side of tv)

The rca on side of tv is occupied by rca cable from Humax box.

So all the inputs on tv are now full up

S far so good everything is working except the panasonic dvd recorder, It has 2 scarts, rca both in and out.

How do I get it to work too, do I hook it up to the humax by scart, play a dvd on dvd recorder and then the get the Humax to rescan and find it, (if that is possible) then just set a channel for it on the humax box?

Would mean switching on the humax everythime I wanted to watch a dvd, but just wondering would the above proceedure work?

Thanks very much for any help
martin57

johnnyboyrebel

martin57 wrote: »

Hi folks,

I have just got a Humax hd freeveiw box today and having a bit of trouble deciding how to hook the lot up so that everything is working.

1 Philips crt tv has 2 scarts (both occupied by direct scart from sky box and a cctv camera,

2 Rca in (yellow red and white at side of tv)

The rca on side of tv is occupied by rca cable from Humax box.

So all the inputs on tv are now full up

S far so good everything is working except the panasonic dvd recorder, It has 2 scarts, rca both in and out.

How do I get it to work too, do I hook it up to the humax by scart, play a dvd on dvd recorder and then the get the Humax to rescan and find it, (if that is possible) then just set a channel for it on the humax box?

Would mean switching on the humax everythime I wanted to watch a dvd, but just wondering would the above proceedure work?

Thanks very much for any help
martin57

Presumably as you say you would just connect the dvd recorder to the humax box which in turn is connected to the TV so as soon as you turn the DVD recorder on it should come on the TV.

Try it and see what happens, its always confusing with this type of thing and its quite late and Im tired

johnnyboyrebel

johnnyboyrebel wrote: »

Presumably as you say you would just connect the dvd recorder to the humax box which in turn is connected to the TV so as soon as you turn the DVD recorder on it should come on the TV.

Try it and see what happens, its always confusing with this type of thing and its quite late and Im tired

One thing to note is you cannot stream HD via a scart cable, you have to use HDMI.

martin57

Thanks for replies, I'm not worried abotu HD streaming (though thanks for that info) as it is just the stadard tv anyways.

Just want to get the dvd player/recorder working.

Thanks again
martin57

johnnyboyrebel

martin57 wrote: »

Thanks for replies, I'm not worried abotu HD streaming (though thanks for that info) as it is just the stadard tv anyways.

Just want to get the dvd player/recorder working.

Thanks again
martin57

Why buy a HD freeview box then? :beer:

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Hi,

try this wee gadget.

martin57

johnnyboyrebel wrote: »

Why buy a HD freeview box then? :beer:

Good question, I am in N ireland and its to receive the Irish digital service RTE 2 which is only on a HD box.

Thanks
martin57