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TV connections
springsteen68
Posts: 2 Newbie
in Phones & TV
Hello everybody. I hope there is an expert out there who can help me.
I have recently purchased a new TV and decided to give my old one to my 92 year old mother-in-law.
I have tried twice to set this up to no avail.
The first time i tried i realised that her equipment only connected with scart and there is only 1 scart on the new tv. I then purchased a scart splitter and thought that was the answer.
However today on trying again when playing a dvd the picture was all wavy and you could hear the sound from the tv at the same time.
She has a virgin set-top box with only scart connection, a dvd player also only with scart connection and a vhs video recorder (i know, but she is 92!!) again only with scart.
It is possible that there is a genius out there who can tell me how to configure this system so that everything works.
I would be very grateful
Thanks
:):)
I have recently purchased a new TV and decided to give my old one to my 92 year old mother-in-law.
I have tried twice to set this up to no avail.
The first time i tried i realised that her equipment only connected with scart and there is only 1 scart on the new tv. I then purchased a scart splitter and thought that was the answer.
However today on trying again when playing a dvd the picture was all wavy and you could hear the sound from the tv at the same time.
She has a virgin set-top box with only scart connection, a dvd player also only with scart connection and a vhs video recorder (i know, but she is 92!!) again only with scart.
It is possible that there is a genius out there who can tell me how to configure this system so that everything works.
I would be very grateful
Thanks
:):) 0
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Difficult to diagnose online but it sounds like it's the scart splitter at fault. Do you manually press a button to switch source or does it auto switch?springsteen68 wrote: »Hello everybody. I hope there is an expert out there who can help me.
I have recently purchased a new TV and decided to give my old one to my 92 year old mother-in-law.
I have tried twice to set this up to no avail.
The first time i tried i realised that her equipment only connected with scart and there is only 1 scart on the new tv. I then purchased a scart splitter and thought that was the answer.
However today on trying again when playing a dvd the picture was all wavy and you could hear the sound from the tv at the same time.
She has a virgin set-top box with only scart connection, a dvd player also only with scart connection and a vhs video recorder (i know, but she is 92!!) again only with scart.
It is possible that there is a genius out there who can tell me how to configure this system so that everything works.
I would be very grateful
Thanks:):)0 -
Get enough scart to hdmi cables would be my solution.0
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martinthebandit wrote: »Get enough scarf to hdmi cables would be my solution.
They don't have any HDMI inputs or outputs so that would be pointless.0 -
springsteen68 wrote: »Hello everybody. I hope there is an expert out there who can help me.
I have recently purchased a new TV and decided to give my old one to my 92 year old mother-in-law.
I have tried twice to set this up to no avail.
The first time i tried i realised that her equipment only connected with scart and there is only 1 scart on the new tv. I then purchased a scart splitter and thought that was the answer.
However today on trying again when playing a dvd the picture was all wavy and you could hear the sound from the tv at the same time.
She has a virgin set-top box with only scart connection, a dvd player also only with scart connection and a vhs video recorder (i know, but she is 92!!) again only with scart.
It is possible that there is a genius out there who can tell me how to configure this system so that everything works.
I would be very grateful
Thanks:):)
A Scart splitter us just that a splitter sounds like she needs a Scart switch.
An example not a recommendation:
http://www.argos.co.uk/product/10787010 -
I suspect the TV has more inputs than just one scart connection, I assumed that the problem was that the old dears existing equipment, DVD, vhs etc only had scart outputs.Colin_Maybe wrote: »They don't have any HDMI inputs or outputs so that would be pointless.0 -
martinthebandit wrote: »Get enough scarf to hdmi cables would be my solution.
Why is it cold inside?0 -
Inner_Zone wrote: »Why is it cold inside?
......suspect it's my speel chucker playing up0 -
SCART is analogue, HDMI is digital so not directly swappable without additional converters to modify the signal.0
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Give us the TV model so that we can work out what connections are available. Looks like you've got a rubbish SCART splitter though.0
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Hi.
The tv is an LG32LD450
Thanks everybody for your input so far0
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