"belmont5" wrote in message
s.com...
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.




Hmmm.

I have a different set-up, but before I tell you what it is, it'd be useful
to know what scart sockets you have available (e.g. 2 x Video, 2 x TV (11
RGB + 1 SVideo), 2 x Sky box).

I have a slighly different set-up (as I also have a DVD player added to the
mix) but this is how my set-up works:

For scart cables : Output of Cable box Input on Video. Output of Video via
scart to scart input 2 on Telly. DVD connects straight from output to tv
scart input 1 (not that that will be of any interest to you). This set up
should allow you to watch Sky via your a/v channel on your video (which
should give you as clear a picture as the direct connection, plus you get
the best picture quality for recording programmes).

For RF cables : Firstly, check (via scart display) that the video and sky
box are both set up to transmit an RF signal. Quite a few new fangled boxes
these days have the option to switch off RF and just have the scart output.
Go with your original set-up : ariel into skybox, skybox into video and
video into telly. Normally boxes don't send out a signal unless they're
switched on, so start with all the boxes (video and skybox, not telly) off
and check telly is tuned in OK? Fine? Switch on video and set telly to a/v
channel (i.e. video scart). Check all channels OK. Whack a tape in (or
ideally use the test signal as this is more obvious) and select the channel
you want to tune in to. Newer telly's allow you to enter channel no's so you
should be able to key in the video channel directly. If not, scan about for
it. I suspect it might be around the 35 - 39 range unless you've previously
changed it. If you can't find it at-all, (but you can see it on scart and
the RF modulator's enabled) I'd say your RF modulator's shot. Try
disconnecting the ariel to make sure the video's not hiding behind channel
5. Hopefully now you have a TV and Video capable of picking up channels.
Switch on the Skybox, switch off video and select video channel (RF not
scart), if you can see the skybox channels, video and sky are broadcasting
on the same frequency and you'll need to change one (probably video). If
not, select a clean channel and tune in skybox. All should now be
hunkey-dorey, though you might also want to tune in one video RF channel
into the skybox.

HTH,

Leigh