Swapped ps3 (1 day old) from hdmi connection on telly in lounge to telly in another room on scart and no picture!! Disc is 'whirring' nicely, lights are on but nothing on av channel??? Any suggestions? Thanks

Simply using a cable with a scart connection at one end and an HDMI connection at the other will not work as scart is an analogue signal and HDMI is a digital signal and so you will need to buy an HDMI to Scart Converter/Adapter to change the signal.
There no such thing as Scart to HDMI Cable HDMI Hero Splitting HDMI pictures has never been easier

It might be your XBOX Port, or your HDMI Port. Either one may be damaged.

almost all Dvd players are connected to a television by either a scart or a HDMI lead.

When you plug the scart into the back of your television (make sure its in properly) then turn the power on. on your dvd player.

This should automatically come on as scart leads send a voltage up the scart telling the tv to change to that source/av.

If it is connected via a HDMI cable then if you look at the back of your telly it will tell you what HDMI input number it is. then all you have to do is press the AV/ SOURCE button on your remote to select that number.

Hope this Helps
Little Dish Fitter

I am a sky engineer (not a subby)
the reason this does not come on straight away is because a Scart lead send power upto your telly when it is turned on. Telling the telly that this is what you want.
Unfortunately HDMI does not send power upto the telly. There are ways around this. ON Samsung, Panasonic and Lg tellys you can go into a secret menu and apply something called HOTEL MODE this allows you to change the av input so it would automatically come on your hdmi 1,2,3, etc

In your case follow my instructions below

go to the hdmi you are using for your Hd

on the sky remote
Press SELECT and GREEN until LED flashes twice.
Press HELP then SELECT and the LED will flash Twice. what this mean is when you press your Sky button, tv guide, services or interactive button to turn the sky on this will automatically change your av/source on your telly to the sky HD for you

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Have a good one

Little Dish Fitter

Hi Martin,

A wiring Schematic is not that you should be looking. What you need is large feeders to understand hot to connect to various ports to give your desired output.

Yes. You need a

scart to VGA cable

or a

Scart to HDMI Cable.

The second one is more expensive but has a better quality picture. Your tv should have these two ports. The 'scart' goes into the back of the video and the VGA / HDMI goes into the TV. They can be purchased at any of the sites i have listed below.

www.maplin.co.uk/searchtemplate.asp?criteria=SCART%20TO%20VGA%20CONVERTER -

www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/scartleads.html -

www.cablesandleads.com/ -

Hope this help's you,

Hughie.

With your PS3 on standby (red light) hold the on/off button down until it goes green and then back to red. This restores your PS3 to "factory settings", i.e. it is waiting for you to tell it how you want it to connect to your TV. Now disconnect any HDMI cables you may be trying to use and connect your PS3 to your TV via a scart connection. Now switch your PS3 on and turn to your AV channel and you should have both sound and pictures.

dvd to vcr to tv.

i have a targa 5500x from lidl cant copy from hard drive to dvd as i have done this many times but the dvd drawer keeps opening telling me to put in blank dvd and i keep doing this but getting no where,
mary

If you select the HDMI channel to watch a dvd does it do it then, if not disconnect both ends of the scart lead and reconnect or replace. If the scart lead is not in properly this could happen, when you switch on the player and play a disc your tv will automatically switch to the AV/Scart channel, but you are better off manually turning the TV over to the HDMI Hi-Def channel for DVD.