helllppp just bought new telly and cant set it up

michelle1974 · 22-10-2010, 21:45

hi i have just bought a panasonic hd ready tv and i have the sky + box and a freeview with recorder built in but have only one scart socket and cant get the 2 of them to work together i bought a scart extention but the freeveiw screen was all wonky and the sky had like a shadow to it i dont know what to do now please someone help me thanks

Paul · 23-10-2010, 07:21

You won't get HD via SCART? You sure you don't have any HDMI ports on the television? what model is it?

nodrogd · 23-10-2010, 09:58

Do you mean by an extension that you've bought a splitter (two sockets to one plug)? If you have it needs to be the switched type or you will get all sorts of problems as the two inputs will interfere with eachother.

The shadowing on the sky signal may be because the TV and/or sky box are switched to composite video. If they are set to send/receive RGB this should disappear.

michelle1974 · 23-10-2010, 19:43

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Originally Posted by nodrogd

Do you mean by an extension that you've bought a splitter (two sockets to one plug)? If you have it needs to be the switched type or you will get all sorts of problems as the two inputs will interfere with eachother.

The shadowing on the sky signal may be because the TV and/or sky box are switched to composite video. If they are set to send/receive RGB this should disappear.

hi again thanks for the replys i just bought a cheap extention scart so that i could plug both scarts in all i want to do it be able to record on my freeveiw box and watch sky on the same telly at the same time so the splitter wouldnt work either hope this makes sense i would think there is a way to set it up maybe i have plugged things in wrong thanks again for helping

Paul · 24-10-2010, 11:54

Michelle, post the model and make of the television, we are working in the dark here.

michelle1974 · 24-10-2010, 22:31

sorry its a Panasonic 50in HD ready freeview plasma tv TX-P50C2B hope this helps thanks for helping me x

Paul · 25-10-2010, 07:21

According to the blurb that TV has 2 scarts? Do you want both items plugged in or are you trying to hook the freeview box to your scart box? If you just want them connected plug them into a Scart socket each and plug your aerial cable into the freeview box.

michelle1974 · 27-10-2010, 18:54

ho definatly only has one scart socket i want them both plugged in so i can still record on my freeveiw box thanks

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there is the ports for the red white blue will this cable at one end scart at the other work??

Paul · 27-10-2010, 21:12

Can you post the model of your freeview recorder? You may need to daisy chain the devices, just checked on a website with a proper tech spec and you only have one scart and one SVideo socket according to the description.

michelle1974 · 01-11-2010, 16:52

hi not sure of he model but its a dtro207 digihome thanks