Sky Coax Question

[skilly1]

I have a coax output from a sky box and a plasma with no tuner or coax input. The plasma has Phono video / sound inputs and also scart inputs. How do I get it to show the image? Do I use a digi box? I need a small solution.

PS there is no way of using a different sky box output.

[SS2.]

skilly1 said:

PS there is no way of using a different sky box output.

Why not ?

Is there not a composite out (yellow phono plug) ?

[headcase]

Your sky box has 2 scart outputs one labelled TV and the other VCR, you can plug a scart lead or scart - phono adapter into either of those and it will work.

Secondly if you can ONLY use the RF out for whatever reason then you could connect this to a DVD recorder that has a composite out/scart and use the tuner in the DVD to tune in sky < but thats a horrible way to do it you really need to make the 1st option work.

Edited by headcase on Friday 16th October 07:23

Edited by headcase on Friday 16th October 07:24

[skilly1]

SS2. said:

skilly1 said:

PS there is no way of using a different sky box output.

Why not ?

Is there not a composite out (yellow phono plug) ?

The RF cable has already been laid in the wall, sky box is 25m away in another room and can't be moved. Its a restaurant - not a house, so don't have flexibility and sky box is already running a local plasma.

[headcase]

the only thing you can do is to use something with an analogue tuner and a scart/phono output like a DVDr or a vcr.

[hairyben]

Image only? chop the plugs off the RF lead, fit phono's and use composite video. (can use scart to composite adapters if ness.) picture won't be soopah-doopah but won't be worse than RF modulated...

Edited by hairyben on Saturday 17th October 18:56

[headcase]

could work but would be tricky, he is already using the scarts for something else so you would need to break out the composite video, the only problem with that is you will loose alot of the luma info as composite video wont really supply 2 screens very well (ive tried it), you could make sure that the screen that is connected to the scart is using RGB then break out pin 19 (composite video) BUT it also carries the RGB sync so you could end up with your RGB picture floating around if the impedance on your composite video screen is to low...... its all a bit techincal to do when a cheepo VCR would do the job (unless there is noware to put a vcr)

Question back to the op,

What exactly is connected to the scart sockets? there could be a way of 'extracting' an unused composite video signal depending on what is connected.

[skilly1]

Local Plasma, which is by the Sky box uses the RF out and in.

New Plasma 25 meters away only has Co-ax laid to it. I need sound as well as image.

Someone has suggested using something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rimax-5.8GHz-Wireless-Audio-...

Anyone used one or can suggest a good make?

[cjs]

That would work or, as said before, just stick an old VCR at the end of the Coax and use that to send a video and audio to the Plasma