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Getting Freeview & Coverage

I am having trouble setting up or connecting my digital box

The equipment should be connected as follows:

The cable from the rooftop aerial should connect in to the RF in socket (might also be marked antenna or aerial or ant in) on the back of the digital box.

The box should have two scart sockets the 1st marked TV (or might be just scart1) should connect to the corresponding scart socket on the rear of your TV set.

If your TV does not have a scart socket it might have AV (Audio/Video) sockets instead, these are 3 individual round "phono" sockets coloured red, white and yellow and you will require a special lead to connect this to your box. (see an electrical retailer for details).

If your TV has not got this and only has the normal RF aerial socket you will not be able to connect it directly to the digital box unless the box has a RF modulator and output. Very few boxes have this please check with your manufacturer or electrical retailer.

You might be able to connect the box to the scart socket on your VCR and watch Freeview on your TV's video channel instead.

The 2nd scart socket on the rear of the digital box is usually marked as Video (or just as scart 2). This should be connected to the scart input socket on the rear of your VCR if you have one.

The RF output socket on the digital box connects to the aerial input on your VCR if you have one or to otherwise to the aerial socket on the rear of your TV.

(Unless your digital box has a RF modulator this connection is just a "RF loopthrough" which means it carries the conventional analogue signal through to your TV or VCR but does not carry any Freeview channel signals as these go via the box's scart outputs)

Finally your digital box's power cable needs to be connected to the power socket on the rear of the box and then plugged into an AC wall socket.

Now you are ready to go.

Check you have batteries in your remote control handset then switch on the digital box.

Set your TV channel to AV or SCART or EXT and you should see the digital box welcome message or menu screen.

Now follow the setup or tuning instructions on screen or follow the advice in the appliance's user manual.

See our setting up section for more details.