"belmont5" wrote in message
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Earlier this week we bought a new widescreen TV & I am having great
problems
trying to tune the VCR.
I have connected the new TV, VCR & skybox as shown in the skybox manual
i.e.
terrestrial aerial & satellite aerial to skybox, two scart cables from
skybox, one to TV & the other to VCR, RF cable from skybox to VCR & RF
cable
from VCR to TV.
I have tuned the five terrestrial channels & sky to the new TV & can use
the
Sky remote to switch between TV & Satellite no problem.
I have tried tuning the VCR to the TV by setting the TV to channel 8 &
playing a video in the VCR while automatically scanning on the tuning
menu,
it picks up everything but the video. I have also noticed that when
the remote is set to Sky then I can switch the VCR on ok yet when I switch
the VCR on when the remote is set to TV then Channel 6 which is where Sky
is
tuned to becomes unwatchable due to interference.
Hope you can understand this. Thanks for looking & I hope someone might be
able to help.
Cheers
Jamie.
Hi Jamie,
Remove everything from the equation except the TV and VCR. Plug your
antenna into the VCR then out to your TV. Put the VCR on its test signal,
then tune the TV to it. You now know the TV is picking up the VCR.
Now tune in the channels on the VCR. There, that's that bit done. You now
know the VCR is picking up all the channels available to it through the
ariel.
Next, you'll have to bring in the Sky Box, but make sure you only plug the
ariel into them, i.e. Ariel to VCR then out to Sky Box, then out of Sky Box
to the TV.
Now put the Sky Box on its test signal and tune the TV to it. Now this if
where the fighting might start. The usual TV setting for peripheral
appliances is channel 39 on the TV and both your Sky Box and VCR may both be
set to this frequency, so it is your choice of which unit you select to give
a different output. Usually the VCR's are the easiest, so take a look in
the VCR instruction manual on how to change to RF output to a different TV
channel.
If you can, try to set the VCR output to somewhere around the 45 - 46 mark
and then re-tune the TV back in to it.
You should now be able to switch the TV between the VCR and Sky Box with no
problems.
Now it's just a case of putting the SCART leads in place as the instruction
says and everything should be hunky dorry. :-))
A bit long winded, but I hope it helps a bit.
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