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Can I use a Freeview box if there is no SCART connector on my TV?


Can I use a Freeview box if there is no SCART connector on my T

Very few of the current Freeview boxes have both SCART and UHF outputs, but you will have to check.

This is done mainly to keep the costs down, but it saves any possible interference from the box itself with the incoming Freeview signals.

So with the a few boxes - often PVRs - you can watch (and record) Freeview channels via a UHF channel.

However, the best possible picture quality is obtained using the "RGB" output on the SCART connector, so if you switch the box to a new TV at some point, you should use the SCART then.



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Dave Lindsay
Sunday 23 December 2012 12:17AM
Derek Smith: I think that you should feed your aerial in to your Philips receiver and then out and into your Akura TV (with in-built Freeview). There is no need to loop through the Samsung DVD because there are scart connections available.

I found the user manual for the Samsung here:

www.samsung.com link icon Support for DVD-HR725

The user manual for the Philips is here:

DTR210/05 Digital Terrestrial Receiver - Philips Support

(The information found at those links may be useful to anyone helping on here.)


I think that you should connect a scart lead between the TV socket on the Philips and AV2 of the Samsung. Then connect another scart lead from AV1 of the Samsung and the TV.

The reason I say to use the TV output socket of the Philips is because it supports RGB and the VCR/DVD one does not.

With RGB the picture is sent along the scart cable using three wires (one for each of the colours - red, green and blue). If RGB isn't available, then you would probably use composite video (CVBS). This uses one wire to carry the picture and so because everything has to be combined down a single conductor and split up again at the other end, the picture isn't as good.

On the Philips go to the Configuration menu and set TV Out to "RGB".


If the TV supports RGB, then set the Samsung to output RGB, else leave it on CVBS (Component). This can be changed via the menu > Setup > Video > Video Output.
Dave Lindsay
Sunday 23 December 2012 10:26AM
Derek Smith: In last paragraph, I said "CVBS (Component)". These are in fact two different systems, but the Samsung allows two "Video Output" settings: Component and RGB

If RGB isn't supported, then leave it on Component. The point being to use RGB if it is supported.
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