How to connect new tv and DVD player to virgin STB

googler

littlerock wrote: »

no hdmi - very old tv am hoping to record but also from freeview which I also intend to install once have got VM box reconnected from OH to watch eurosport. (Cable feed is next to aerial socket).

Can you post the model number / type of Virgin box that you have, and also the model number of the Pana recorder?

So, if you want to record Freeview, you need to connect your aerial to RF in on the Pana, and RF out from the Pana to your TV. This will allow you to record Freeview and also watch it on the TV without having the Pana switched on.

I'll wait till we have the model numbers before advising further

Inner_Zone

littlerock wrote: »

I found the LG "user guide" and downloaded it but it was only a couple of not very informative videos, unless i am looking at the wrong thing.

Cannot see any option to choose output resolution on the virgin remote.

The TV Hdmi channel numbers are generated by the TV automatically so if I plug cable into one of the hdmi ports, it generates Hdmi12 as the channel code or hdmi13 if I chose another one.

The previous V+ connection was via SCSI cable and I am wondering if the v+ box is still looking for this and needs resetting in which case I probably need to phone Virgin

The most HDMI socket on a high end LG TV is five not thirteen and most are three or four.

Inner_Zone

littlerock wrote: »

no hdmi - very old tv am hoping to record but also from freeview which I also intend to install once have got VM box reconnected from OH to watch eurosport. (Cable feed is next to aerial socket).

You were advised other cheaper (MSE) methods to get Eurosport but you seem to have ignored them.

littlerock

just to update you. i worked out that the issue was that my v+box was configured with a scsi interface which needed to be reset to hdmi and this was not automatic. I then found an early v+box user guide online, dating back to when the SCSI interface was still widely used. On page 18 it described how to update this to hdmi when you got a new smart TV.

Even so I struggled to make this work on my LG TV. I was confused by the interfaces between LGs proprietary operating system, how to reset the v+ box via the TV and the fact I was also set up for WiFi connection.

Then i remembered that I have a small basic flat screen TV a couple of years old, with integral DVD player, in the bedroom. Nothing smart about it. So I decided to use that to reset the v+ box as there was no interference from other software. I followed the instructions in the old V+ box user guide on line and it worked first time. . Then I just moved the hdmi cable from the basic TV to the new LG smart one and I was in business.

If anyone else has the same problem, I can email them the instructions or the link to the V+ box user guide - it is a .pdf.

Result!. Thank you to everyone who has taken a positive interest.

KeithP

Over three hundred threads started in the last two years.

Amazing.

emptybox

Well I'm glad you've got it fixed.
Seems you didn't need our help after all? :cool:

Still don't know what SCSI has to do with it?
It certainly wasn't the way you connected the V+ box to the old TV, as TVs don't have that socket.

Was it something to do with the Smartcard socket or the 'Test Port' on the back of the V+ box?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Samsung_Virgin_Media_V%2B_HD_Box_%28Rear_Connections%29.jpg

eastcorkram

As the OP said, it's the tv that calls them that. I have an LG tv, I think I only have one hdmi input in use, of the three available. The on screen input page shows that one as hdmi 13.

neilmcl

littlerock wrote: »

just to update you. i worked out that the issue was that my v+box was configured with a scsi interface which needed to be reset to hdmi and this was not automatic. I then found an early v+box user guide online, dating back to when the SCSI interface was still widely used. On page 18 it described how to update this to hdmi when you got a new smart TV.

Even so I struggled to make this work on my LG TV. I was confused by the interfaces between LGs proprietary operating system, how to reset the v+ box via the TV and the fact I was also set up for WiFi connection.

Then i remembered that I have a small basic flat screen TV a couple of years old, with integral DVD player, in the bedroom. Nothing smart about it. So I decided to use that to reset the v+ box as there was no interference from other software. I followed the instructions in the old V+ box user guide on line and it worked first time. . Then I just moved the hdmi cable from the basic TV to the new LG smart one and I was in business.

If anyone else has the same problem, I can email them the instructions or the link to the V+ box user guide - it is a .pdf.

Result!. Thank you to everyone who has taken a positive interest.

"You" worked it out did you, nothing to do with the reply I posted earlier this morning in post #19. And it's SCART not SCSI!

littlerock

,Sorry I meant I worked it out with the help of everyone here. I did not mean to disrespect anyone. I am not technical so apologise for getting some of the terms wrong.

As regards the interface with the old TV - it was connected to the v+ box via a scart? cable. The v+ box and the TV had matching Scart ? connection ports. ( I can post a photo showing this.) . When I connected the V+ box to the new LG TV via their Hdmi ports with an HDMI cable, the v+ box did not recognise this change automatically. It was necessary to manually reset the v+ box to "talk" HDMI . I found a short routine on how to do this in an old v+ user guide on line.

I did go through earlier and update the thanks flags on everyone's helpful posts.


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