Freeview with Old TV

martindow

My father has got an ancient TV with no Scart socket just a coax cable connection on the back. Can a Freeview box work with this? I know he could get a cheap more modern TV but he is very set in his ways and doesn't want to change anything. Needless to say I would be buying the Freeview box;)

ScottySmog

Does your Dad have a video recorder? If so, he could scart lead from the Freeview box to the VCR and watch freeview through the channel he watches his video on.

If he doesn't have a VCR, I'm out of ideas!

thetope

I have a pioneer DBR-TF100GB freeview box, it can also output via a coax cable (a standard aerial cable) rather than scart. Very useful and i have been using it on a 30 year old telly with no problems whatsoever. It's an excellent box, works quickly and you can program the remote to do the basic functions from the tv remote very easily. It also seems to pick up even the weakest of crappy signals very well, it works just fine on a bog standard set top aerial in my house.

Not sure if they are still sold brand new but there are quite a few on ebay and suchlike. can highly recommend it, I even bought one for my parents too!

oldagetraveller

Possibly wrong but is the digital signal output through the co-axial connection in addition to the SCART or is that just to "loop through" the analogue signal?

martindow

Thanks all - I'll try to find the pioneer box!

Flimber

I've got one of those Pioneer boxes. Only entered the the thread to tell you that they have a TV modulator built in. There were other boxes with this facility - even some of the cheapy supermarket ones. We don't use ouors anyway. You anywhere near Yorkshire ?

Moneymaker

The key phrase you are looking for is "RF Modulator". You'll pay about £20 extra for a Freeview receiver with this but the cheapest separate RF Modulator I can find is £19.95 plus postage plus VAT.

As mentioned, the alternative is to use an old VCR as your "RF Modulator". But doing it that way may be more confusing.

thetope

oldagetraveller wrote: »

Possibly wrong but is the digital signal output through the co-axial connection in addition to the SCART or is that just to "loop through" the analogue signal?

sorry, forgot to check back on this thread, yes, the digital signal is output by coax as well as scart, it's not a loopthrough but can be used as such too (i think). great if you're short of scarts too.