As above. My mum has a new telly and it has no scart socket. What’s the best way to connect her DVR to it just to play CD's? Also, what’s the LNB connection for - direct to satellite?
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Unfortunately that won't work.
Yellow, red and white RCA connections are for analogue signals. HDMI is for digital signals. A simple piece of wire can't change analogue to digital. It's extremely unlikely that the HDMI (digital) input on a TV can also accept analogue.
These cables originate in China/Hong Kong for use with karaoke machines we don't see in the UK. They break the standards for HDMI in order to make these machines compatible with the local old analogue TVs.
TVs made for the UK and European market don't generally flout the rules regarding signal standards. However, that doesn't stop enterprising individuals from advertising these cables on UK Ebay.
Somewhere in the description there'll be a disclaimer. This is what they use to avoid giving a refund when inevitably it becomes apparent that the cable doesn't work. Caveat emptor - let the buyer beware.
Simple. Yellow to yellow. Red to red. White to white. On the TV, choose the AV input that corresponds with the sockets marked 'Back AV In' on the TV.
You might be tempted to look at SCART to HDMI (powered) signal convertors in the belief that HDMI is a better quality input. What you need to know though is that these convertors use the SCART equivalent of the yellow, white and red connections. Theres no difference in picture quality between the SCART version and the round RCA connections for composite video and stereo audio.
The active convertors simply do what the TV does with an input connected to Back AV In. In fact your TV will probably do the signal conversion better, so keep it direct: yellow to yellow etc. You'll get a better result and won't waste money on a pointless bit of hardware.
The TV's LNB connection is indeed for the connection to a satellite dish with an ordinary LNB as used by Sky before they went to Sky Q.
The TV will have a satellite tuner (most likely listed as DVB-S or DVB-S2 in the specifications) as well as the Freeview HD tuner DVB-T2. Depending on the capabilities of the set it might also accept Cable TV (DVB-C/DVB-C2). Any variant of T/S/C followed by '2' indicates that the tuner can pick up HD as well as standard def' channels.
The satellite tuner may or may not use the Freesat EPG. This is the TV guide and order of the channels. Freesat is the UK satellite alternative to Freeview, and it has the advantage over Freeview in that it carries a greater number of HD channels.
Not all TVs with an LNB input for DVB-S/S2 include the Freesat EPG. Those that don't will still pick up the same range of channels, but they won't be arranged in the familiar BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Ch4, 5 etc channel order.
If there's easy access to an LNB signal then it's worth hooking up and having a look at least at the satellite channel range. You and your mum can then make a decision if it's worth keeping connected. The channel range isn't quite the same as Freeview, so it's not simply a replication of the same channels but from a different source.
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