Television after Changeover

[Jacko439]

We in my part of the West Midlands are due to change to Digital in 2010? I have a good 15" coloured TV but unfortunately it does not have a scart socket or any means of connecting cables other than the Aerial. What if anything can I do to use this set after change over or do I have to scrap it. I am a pensioner so could do with retaining it if at all possible.

[ChuckFickens]

Some freeview boxes also put the signal out via a normal aerial socket so you can tune a channel on the TV into them

But you'll have to be careful when buying as a lot of them don't, they just pass the normal TV signal through without adding the freeview

[Ethel]

Scroll down to the bottom of this link for a solution:

http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/freeviewadvice. html#noscart

[ianmunt]

An RF modulator will enable you to feed in the digital signal via the aerial

[jon1968]

Have you got a video with a scart socket? You can route it through that.
If not then ask around friends & family �cause a lot of people are binning their videos in favour of digital recorders these days or you can buy one for less than one of those rf mods.

[LCDMAN]

You just need to be sure and buy a Freeview box that does have an RF modulator built in rather than just "RF loop-through". Then you tune your TV to the output of the box, just like you would have done previously when connecting a video recorder.

This is a good example of one that does have an RF modulator built in, it's nice and small and not expensive either (and made in Britain). It is specifically designed for, and marketed at, people in your situation;

http://www.tvonics.com/digital-set-top-boxes/m fr-200.html

[romko]

a humax box or a sattelite rover sr220 both have inbuilt modulators but a video is by far the simplest way.