TV Question - Setting up a new one.......

[pmanson]

We've got a new TV on the way with built in freeview.

The current TV has only one scart and the set up is:

Ariel into the back of the video.
Standard Cable from Video into the TV
Scart cable from video to TV
Scart cable from DVD to TV (Swapped as and when needed with Video)

It probably doesn't need the non scart cable running from the Video to the TV but it was there so I plugged it in.

Am I right in thinking at I can set the new TV up as follows:

Ariel into the back of the TV.
Scart 1 to the Video
Scart 2 to the DVD

Will this allow me to record from the TV and watch a dvd at the same time?

or will I need to set it up as follows:

Ariel into Video
Cable from Video to TV
Scart 1 to the Video
Scart 2 to the DVD

Also how easy is it record from Freeview to the video. Can I watch one channel and record another?

[RobDickinson]

uhh not 100% sure but.

1st connect the ariel through the vid to the tv.

Then connect the DVD to the tv via scart on an RGB or S-Video enabled socket - preferably RGB if both the DVD and TV deal with it.

Then the Video player to the TV via another scart socket.

You should be able to output the freeview from the tv via the scart to the video as well as watch vids.

Tho no idea if you could output the freeview tuner via scart whilst watching the dvd sorry.

[Father Ted]

IIRC you will need to put the aerial cable to the video as before and STILL run an aerial cable between TV and Video.....i think the RF feed is required right from source through to TV receiver

the double scart will work as intended .....your new TV should have seperate AV output channels (i.e. RGB and YC etc)to be able to view the sources on different channels.....you should also be able to watch a DVD whilst taping another programme.....


i do, however, eat at McDonalds sometimes so it may be a load of Chav mis-information that i'm writing here

[Father Ted]

p.s as the freeview is integrated you should have no difficulties taping satellite programmes...this will transer its medium via the scart socket(TV-Video)

[pmanson]

Cheers for that, at least i'm on the right lines.

It will be good to go from a 14" TV (Our 9yr old 21" blew up before Christmas) so we're using that to a 28" 100Hz Flat widescreen jobby!

TBH the Video and DVD players are only cheap jobbies - My parents aren't really into that sort of thing. Although I might try and convince them to let me bring my Panasonic surround sound system down from my bedroom and use that instead.

(The wonders of moving home from uni for a placement year!)

[pmanson]

Father Ted said:

p.s as the freeview is integrated you should have no difficulties taping satellite programmes...this will transer its medium via the scart socket(TV-Video)

Now that will be good.

Before Christmas both the old TV and Freeview box we had blew up in unrelated incidents! However i'd never been able to work out to tape from Freeview to the video as both of them needed the 1 scart the TV had.

[telecat]

Just check the New TV for the SCART in/out usually only one of them does it. Oh and always buy a video with two scarts that way you could have plugged the Freeview box into the second SCART (on the video) and plug the first into the TV. When not watching the video the Freeview box signal "passes thru" the video to the TV SCART.