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brant - Member

I can do bikes, and Mac's but AV stuff just has me flummoxed.

I've bought Toby a set-top box for his telly in his room as they're switching us off Analogue soon. We have a sky thing downstairs.

Right. I plug this set top box into the aeriel off the room, one lead to the ariel socket on the telly, and a scart lead into the back.

There then appears on the telly the sort of blue panel which has various things on it I'm meant to do, except it's slightly out of focus, to one side, messed and keeps scrolling up the screen and back on the bottom again.

It feels like I need to tune something in, but I can't find what to tune what in to.

Any pointers?

Posted 3 years ago #
mastiles_fanylion - Member

You should only need the aerial in to the back of the set-top box and a scart out of the back of the set-top box and into the scart 'in' on the telly.

And switch to the AV channel. No tuning of the TV required - although the set-top box may need tuning.

I think having the aerial out of the set-top box into the telly is confusing things.

Don't forget there will no longer be channels on the TV remote (01, 02, 03 etc), they will all come via the set-top remote on the AV channel.

Posted 3 years ago #
ourkidsam - Member

Dodgy scart lead. Try a different one

Posted 3 years ago #
wors - Member

you only need an aerial cable going into your set top box then the scart lead into the tv.

Posted 3 years ago #
gonefishin - Member

Are you absolutely sure that you're looking at the correct AV channel on the TV? Quite often a single Scart socket on a TV can support a couple of different inputs (s-video, composite etc) and each of these has a separate AV channel on the TV. So make sure that you cycle through ALL the AV channels to find the correct one.

Posted 3 years ago #
theflatboy - Member

what mastiles and then wors said:

wall socket -> AF lead -> set-top box -> scart lead -> TV

TV set to AV input that the scart lead's plugged into. that's it.

Posted 3 years ago #
mastiles_fanylion - Member

what wors said:

which was wot I said before wors did!

Posted 3 years ago #
theflatboy - Member

you must have misread my post!

Posted 3 years ago #
brant - Member

OK - so I pulled the lead out of the ariel socket of the telly, just leaving the scart lead connected from the STB to the TV. No difference. At all.

It's like it's just "off" tune. Gah!

Posted 3 years ago #
wors - Member

plan b then, read the instructions.

Posted 3 years ago #
Pook - Member

put your scart cable in properly.

Posted 3 years ago #
geoffj - Member

wot ourkid sam said. Check the scart lead is seated properly.

Posted 3 years ago #
brant - Member

Quite often a single Scart socket on a TV can support a couple of different inputs (s-video, composite etc) and each of these has a separate AV channel on the TV.

I think you are overestimating the spec of toby's telly...

Posted 3 years ago #
theflatboy - Member

i'll tell you what brant, i'm up your way this weekend.

i'll sort it out for you in exchange for that ragley ti frame. deal?

Posted 3 years ago #
wwaswas - Member

try the set top box on another telly and see if it has the same problem.

Posted 3 years ago #
brant - Member

try the set top box on another telly and see if it has the same problem.

This is the 2nd set top box, as the one I got yesterday did exactly the same thing.

So it's clearly me, not the set top box. It's from Morrisons. Real classy stuff.

Posted 3 years ago #
wors - Member

setup help

Posted 3 years ago #
ourkidsam - Member

Have you tried a different scart lead?

Posted 3 years ago #
mastiles_fanylion - Member

you must have misread my post!

Sorry! DOH!

Have you used the same lead (as mentioned above) it could be that which is faulty. Or the input socket on the telly has a fault.

Or could you try a DVD player or something(which you know to work) as a process of elimination.

I assume you have definitely got the scart out of the set-top and the scart in on the telly and that you have unplugged the AF output of the set-top?

Posted 3 years ago #
wwaswas - Member

Just let the boy sort it out.

You don't get the stress and he'll probably sort it in two minutes and if not he's occupied for hours - result either way.

Posted 3 years ago #
konabunny - Member

aren't SCART leads directional? Have you tried it the other way around? Or am I just talking nonsense?

Posted 3 years ago #
mastiles_fanylion - Member

Or am I just talking nonsense?

You are talking nonsense.

Posted 3 years ago #
uplink - Member

Have you tried the suggestion from earlier re: cycling through all the AV inputs via the TV remote?

Other than that ...
I suspect a badly fitting Scart plug or a bent pin in one of the ends

Without knowing which TV it is - it it also possible that you need to configure [via the TVs menu] the Scart socket to be composite video [CVBS] or RGB

Posted 3 years ago #
konabunny - Member

You are talking nonsense.

Not the first time.

Posted 3 years ago #
gonefishin - Member

You are talking nonsense.

No he's not. Granted not all Scart leads are directional but some are.

Posted 3 years ago #
mastiles_fanylion - Member

Never heard of one directional scart lead in my time - happy to be proved wrong but how could that be unless there were diodes on the lead to stop current running in the other direction??? And why would they do that??? Pardon if my electrical knowledge is useless but I am thinking from memory of science lessons some 28 years ago.

Unless you mean switchable (directional) devices which are very different - they just send the signal to a different destination.

EDIT - there seems to be some that are 'directional' in that not all pins are connected so you need to check the output type is correct (ie RGB).

Posted 3 years ago #
uplink - Member

I've never seen a directional Scart lead other than a Scart to 3 phonos where you can select whether or not the Scart end is in or out

Posted 3 years ago #
brant - Member

Still no joy.
I might buy a scart to RF thingy.

Posted 3 years ago #
retro83 - Member

Brant did you try the STB on a different telly as wwaswas suggested?

Posted 3 years ago #
theflatboy - Member

my offer still stands, brant!

Posted 3 years ago #
mastiles_fanylion - Member

Does the scart have a switch on it? Some have a little switch on the side near the pins to change output type.

Posted 3 years ago #
Rusty Spanner - Member

Brant, I'm half a mile from you and we don't get freeview till 2011.
Don't mean to sound daft, but have you checked the coverage?

Posted 3 years ago #
juan - Member

Any pointers?

Yes
kids are not meant to have a TV in their room...

Posted 3 years ago #
mastiles_fanylion - Member

Don't mean to sound daft, but have you checked the coverage?

No - that can't be. Can it?

Posted 3 years ago #
theflatboy - Member

whether or not there's a signal being picked up, though, the menu screens etc. of the box itself should still be clearly visible if the TV's on the correct AV input.

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