How To Connect Set Top Box To Old Tv

Occasionally we're asked for a very basic guide on how to connect a Freeview set-elevation box to a Tv set gear up, so hither's a plain-English guide…

Setting up a Freeview Box – The Nuts

To get a Freeview box connected to your TV, yous will demand the following:

1. To be in a Freeview coverage area. You can check by putting in your postcode at www.freeview.co.uk/availability

2. A working Goggle box aeriform with a co-ax aerial plug on the end (see picture below)

A TV aerial co-ax plug

A Television receiver aeriform co-ax plug

2. A Tv set with a SCART socket (meet picture below)

A SCART socket

3. A SCART lead – a lead with two SCART plugs at each end (run into motion-picture show beneath). SCART leads are available from Maplin

One end of a SCART lead

How to connect the Freeview box to your TV

Step 1 – Connect the TV aerial plug to the "Aerial In" socket on the Freeview box. The socket may be labelled as "Aeriform In", "Emmet In" or "RF In". Here is a picture of an "Aerial In" socket

Set-top box Aerial In socket

Set-pinnacle box Aerial In socket

Step 2 – Connect one terminate of the SCART atomic number 82 into the Freeview set-superlative box SCART socket. If there are ii sockets, utilize the ane labelled "To TV", not "To video / VCR"

Step three – Connect the other cease of the SCART lead into the Television receiver's SCART socket. If there is more than than one socket, employ whatever, but note the socket number (may be labelled "AV1" or "Line 1")

Step 4 – Plus the Freeview box into the mains ability, and turn on the ability to the Freeview box

Footstep 5 – Turn on the Television set set

Footstep 6 – Yous now need to get the Boob tube to be able to get a signal from the Freeview box. Come across the adjacent department

Connecting a Freeview box to a TV set

Tuning in the Boob tube to the Freeview box

The channels from the Freeview box aren't channels that y'all "tune in" like you did with old counterpart Tv – what yous need to do is set the TV so that information technology gets the channels via the SCART lead that you connected in Pace 2 and Step 3.

What y'all need to do, is set the Tv and then that it tin get a signal from the SCART pb. On the TV remote control, at that place volition be a push button that lets y'all switch from normal TV channels to "Line In". This may exist labelled "Line In" , "AUX", or "AV", but well-nigh commonly, information technology volition have an icon of a Television receiver set with an arrow. Here are a selection of photos of this button:

Pressing this push button switches from standard Idiot box channels to signals from a box or recorder connected via SCART. If your Television receiver ready has more than than one input, you may need to printing this a few times to get to the right input.

When it'south worked, you should be able to see a picture show from your Freeview fix-tiptop box.

If you're not sure how to view the AV input from the SCART socket, refer to your TV's manual.

Tuning in the Freeview box

The terminal step is to get the Freeview ready-top box to find all of the Freeview channels. You lot will demand to get the Freeview box to "scan for channels". Normally information technology asks you lot if you want to do this when you first connect it.

Scanning should take a couple of minutes.

If you're non sure how to get your Freeview box to scan for channels, refer to the Freeview box's transmission. Each Freeview box is unlike, so there is no easy way to describe how to do this for every Freeview box on the marketplace.

That'southward it! Whatever questions? Please ask in the comments section below…