Samsung Plasma (no signal)

[Pied Piper]

Help.

We have just been given a rather nice plasma (that was installed at another pub)that we are trying to set up in the bar.

It has no SCART or standard TV aerial input on it.

Excuse my lack of knowledge.

We have tried connecting a freeview box via a scart convertor into the picture jack (yellow one)and have selected the correct source. The screen acknowlwdges there is a connection but does not find a signal.

We have plugged in a pc via the five way monitor lead and that works fine.

The only thing we haven't tried is connecting up a DVD player as we don't have one at hand at the moment.

Any ideas?

Trying to get it working for the Six Nations this evening.

Cheers

[SwanJack]

Freeview box broken/not picking up a signal ??

[Pied Piper]

SwanJack said:

Freeview box broken/not picking up a signal ??

Freeview box working fine tried it on another TV.

[Plotloss]

Is the freeview box set to output RGB SCART?

If so you wont get anything on the Composite output pins you're trying to utilise.

[Pied Piper]

Plotloss said:

Is the freeview box set to output RGB SCART?

If so you wont get anything on the Composite output pins you're trying to utilise.

That could be it then, it was only a cheap box and guess it's sending the wrong signal then.

Can you recommend a box to do this?

This was supposed to be a cheap install I reckon by the time i'm finished I might as well of bought a new screen.

[Plotloss]

You wont need to buy a new box, the video output mode will be a setting in the setup menu.

Just change it to Composite if its not already set.

[Pied Piper]

Plotloss said:

You wont need to buy a new box, the video output mode will be a setting in the setup menu.

Just change it to Composite if its not already set.

No option to change to composite unless CVBS means composite?

Tried that setting and that does not seem to work.

Edited by Pied Piper on Monday 2nd March 14:08

[Plotloss]

CVBS is indeed composite.

[Pied Piper]

Plotloss said:

CVBS is indeed composite.

I know I said it worked in a previous post, I meant to say it didn't work.

I think dementia has set in.

Looks like its the portable on top of the quiz machine again.

[Pied Piper]

I managed to show the Rugby via my laptop on a live stream. Was not the best as it dropped out of link a few times.

I have tried the box on CVBS and it still does not work, can't even get the menu screen up.

Any ideas anyone?

[cjs]

Are you using the same scart adaptor on both TVs. Or a different scart/scart cable on the TV the box works on?

On the AV input on the TV, is it set for S-video in? Maybe there are two options for that AV in, composite through the yellow phono or S video?

Edited by cjs on Monday 2nd March 22:10