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leesmith17
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Hi all, I have recently moved into my first house and was bought a TV and DVD recorder as a moving in present. The TV is an 42" LG LCD LG42LF66 (1080p) and the DVD is a Sony RDR-HXD870 (1080p Upscaling 160Gb HDD).
For the first week the setup was as follows:
I had the DVD connected to the TV via scart, and as both TV and DVD have built in Freeview tuners I have an external aerial going into the DVD player, then out of the DVD player and into the TV.
Connected like this everything was fine (albeit I wasnt getting the quality I should be doing because I was using Scart instead of HDMI). Freeview in both the TV and DVD worked fine and I could use the electronic guides on both to select a channel and watch a programme. All aerial siganls were fine and everything worked perfectly.
After a week, I bought a HDMI lead so I could get the full potential out of TV & DVD player. The manual of the DVD player clearly states that the connection between TV and DVD can be made by either scart or HDMI but NOT both. With this in mind, I unplugged the scart and swapped it for the HDMI cable. After changing the TV input from scart to HDMI, I can see all the menus for the DVD player perfectly and in very good quality. The problem however it that the aerial signal (for freeview) both in and out of the DVD player seems to be disabled when using the HDMI output. This means I can't use the electronic guide of the DVD player to record programmes to the hard disk and also that freeview can't be watched on the tv via its own freeview tuner. When i use the electronic guide on the DVD player, I select a channel but the picture doesnt appear and a message saying "no signal." is displayed. As soon as I change back to scart the signal from the aerial is recieved perfectly and the programmes are recieved again.
I am literally fed up with this problem. I've bought a high end TV and DVD yet im only able to view through scart. Has anyone else experience this problem? I rang Sony to try and fix this problem and they were totally useless at best. Ive read about other hardware devices disabling RF out when using HDMI but I dont even get RF in to work?! And Sony say it should work in either case, but I wasn't filled with confidence as it took the customer service lady about 10 minutes to find my model of DVD player. Is this a fault or a feature? Any suggestions please let me know!
Thanks, Lee
For the first week the setup was as follows:
I had the DVD connected to the TV via scart, and as both TV and DVD have built in Freeview tuners I have an external aerial going into the DVD player, then out of the DVD player and into the TV.
Connected like this everything was fine (albeit I wasnt getting the quality I should be doing because I was using Scart instead of HDMI). Freeview in both the TV and DVD worked fine and I could use the electronic guides on both to select a channel and watch a programme. All aerial siganls were fine and everything worked perfectly.
After a week, I bought a HDMI lead so I could get the full potential out of TV & DVD player. The manual of the DVD player clearly states that the connection between TV and DVD can be made by either scart or HDMI but NOT both. With this in mind, I unplugged the scart and swapped it for the HDMI cable. After changing the TV input from scart to HDMI, I can see all the menus for the DVD player perfectly and in very good quality. The problem however it that the aerial signal (for freeview) both in and out of the DVD player seems to be disabled when using the HDMI output. This means I can't use the electronic guide of the DVD player to record programmes to the hard disk and also that freeview can't be watched on the tv via its own freeview tuner. When i use the electronic guide on the DVD player, I select a channel but the picture doesnt appear and a message saying "no signal." is displayed. As soon as I change back to scart the signal from the aerial is recieved perfectly and the programmes are recieved again.
I am literally fed up with this problem. I've bought a high end TV and DVD yet im only able to view through scart. Has anyone else experience this problem? I rang Sony to try and fix this problem and they were totally useless at best. Ive read about other hardware devices disabling RF out when using HDMI but I dont even get RF in to work?! And Sony say it should work in either case, but I wasn't filled with confidence as it took the customer service lady about 10 minutes to find my model of DVD player. Is this a fault or a feature? Any suggestions please let me know!
Thanks, Lee