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TV Ports
Hi Guys,
Erm basiclly, I'm looking into buying a new tele but the spec says it only has 1 Scart Socket, I have a DVD player and a VHS player seperatly and would both require @ least 2 scart sockets, and was wondeirng if this would be a good deal or would it make my vhs player useless with only 1 scart socket or if there are ways around this, here is the other spec:- Connectivity * 1 HDMI sockets. * 1 SCART sockets. * PC input socket. * Component video socket. * Composite. * Headphone socket. * AV socket. Thanks guys, From Starbok.
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Looks a pretty poorly spec'ed TV that. One scart and one HDMI - I take it that it is a portable (or one that you don't intend to use very much)?
You'll probably be able to find a TV of a similar size and price but with at least two scarts if you look around. If you are intent on buying this, there are two ways round it. One would be to feed your DVD player scart out into your VCR scart in, then from the VCR scart out to the TV in. That way the DVD player could still send its output to your TV (albeit via the VCR). But, you may find that you have to have the VCR switched on to achieve this. It may also output a very poor picture via the VCR (certainly worse quality than connecting the DVD directly to the TV). You can buy scart swich multiblocks, that let you connect multiple things via scart to the scart switch, then choose which input is sent via a single scart cable to the TV. You can also just connect your VCR to the TV via RF aerial cable instead of scart - but then you are left with a poor mono signal rather than a sharper stereo signal via scart. Although this is videotape we are talking about - who watches video tape in this day and age? For future-proof protection I would still suggest that you look at alternative televisions which come with much better connectivity. |
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2 ways to do this.
Connect the dvd to the scart and tune the video into channel 0 on the tv. VCR quality is so poor that using a scart for it can't really be justified. or If the VCR has 2 scarts, connect the vcr to the tv and the dvd to the other scart on the vcr. The dvd will either pass through the vcr automatically or you can watch it on the av channel of the vcr. If the dvd has a component out (red/green/blue and a red/white audio out) you could use that if the tv supports it. |
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The TV has an AV socket.
Just get a SCART to AV cable for the VCR and put the DVD player into the single SCART on the TV. Sorted. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...28102&doy=19m3 |
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or get a 2 into 1 scart adaptor if a scart for the vcr is essential
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Cheers for ur replies guys, thats certainly helped me out a lot,
Thanks again, From Starbok.
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