Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Peter Crosland wrote:

Owain is correct Dave. You will find some very knowledgeable people on
the uk.tech.digital-tv group.


Many of whom also read this group. ;-)

The key to getting an answer to all these sort of things is stating the
problem clearly.

The OP sort of hasn't. I've tried to answer his query as I interpret it.

Guilty as charged. :-(

Wife went out and bought a flat screen TV and a DVD recorder that has a
hard drive as well. Due to family commitments and poor health, I have
been unable to get the recorder up and running. I started to connect
everything up, without the free view and couldn't get it to work. So I
took the DVD up to my hobby room and used my free view box and TV to
sort things out. According to your earlier post, when I connect up to
the TV downstairs, that has 2 scart sockets, I should end up with what I
want. I have taken a look at the options of the TV and there is indeed
one to select the input, which my old TV doesn't have.

I have now made a plan of history and what makes what work. The next
step is to set everything up downstairs and see if it behaves.

I have never seen as many coax links and scart cable in a set-up like this.

Many Thanks to all who have tried to help this poor person.

Dave