Posted by Jukka Aho on 11/14/06 01:33

cconnell_1@lycos.com wrote:

> My friend has bought a freeview box

Since this is an international newsgroup, it should be explained for the
benefit of readers from other countries that "a Freeview box" is what
they call DVB-T [1] set-top boxes in the UK. (In the UK, the free-to-air
digital tv channels, which are broadcast using the DVB-T standard, have
been consolidated under a single brand and terrestrial operator called
"Freeview" [1].)

> her tv (sony) has only 1 scart cabel at the back, so the way
> we connect it is tv-->dvdplayer, then another cable from dvd
> player to the freeview. The channels are shown on av1. However
> when switching the dvd player on, the freeview is gone as it
> takes presedence. Is there any way aorund this problem?

Does the set-top box only have one SCART socket itself? If it has two of
them, you could just as well daisy-chain the DVD player through the
set-top box instead of the other way around.

You might also want to check if the DVD remote has a "monitor" button
(or a similar functionality of some sort) that would punch through the
signal from the secondary SCART socket even if the player is powered on.

If all that fails, there are remote-controlled SCART switchboxes.

Then again, why can't she just switch off the DVD player when she's
watching television?

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[1] <http://www.dvb.org/>,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB>

[2] <http://www.freeview.co.uk/>,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview>

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