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Urgent Help Required
ren_stimpy
12-03-2008
ok heres my problem, ive got 2 plasmas screen tv's in the hotel, which are connected to a sky digital box via around 70ft of coax cable, the one box feeds both tv's (somebody couldnt be arsed to run scart or video cable that length)

i have to fit a dvd player into the system, so that the dvd(promtional gumff) can been seen on both tv's.
except the dvd player doesnt have a coax output only 1scart (asda Cheapness) ive tried connecting a scart from the dvd to the sky box, but all i get is the sky channel at the televison end.
ive tried switching the dvd from cvbs to rgb but that isnt helping.

now i could go and buy a video sender and a scart extender and broadcast it that way.
but trying to get money out of the GM is like hitting your head of a brick wall, is there anything else i can do ???

ren
John Currie
12-03-2008
DVD players and modern DVD Recorders don't output via RF.
A DVD player or DVDR connected to the VCR scart input/output on a Sky box only outputs from the Sky box TV Scart...not via RF.
You could feed the Sky box via RF and the DVD player via scart in to a VCR and use the modulated output from the VCR to the TVs...or use an AV sender.
Nigel Goodwin
12-03-2008
Except you can't feed a DVD player through a VCR, as the Macrovision messes it up - although as it's not a commercial film it may well be OK? (worth trying if you have an old VCR knocking about).

Failing that you can buy small standalone RF modulators, which is a smaller and neater solution.
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