NTL Digital box - Advice needed on SCART/Co-ax wiring

Compudaro

Trying to sort this dilemma out for my mother and before I go digging into her walls I thought I'd get advice here.

She's currently got NTL digital (the silver PACE box) in her living room but wants to move it to her 2nd living/family room. The problem is, she only has 2 NTL "points" in her house, one in the living room, the other in her bedroom. At the moment, the family room TV gets analogue as it's fed directly from the NTL point in the bedroom via a Coax cable neatly hidden behind skirting boards/walls.
I connected the NTL box to the point in her bedroom and connected the co-ax to the "Cable Out" on the box. However I then discovered that the feed from this output is simply the same analogue signal and not the digitial. So it seems the box only outputs digital via SCART. Is there anyway I can use the existing coax cable to get NTL digital into the family room? A SCART to coax converter would be great but I'm pretty sure they don't exist.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Ranicand

Think your out of luck I am afraid.

coylemj

What about a two-way co-ax splitter? That way the signal going to the living room won't be the output from the digital box which based on what you're saying is filtering out the digital signal.

There's no such thing as SCART to co-ax converter, SCART carries analog video and audio, co-ax carries RF (radio frequency) signals.

Compudaro

Thanks guys,just found a solution...an RF modulator with a SCART input and a coax out.

coylemj

If you're using SCART as a source you'll only get one TV station because that's all a SCART connection can carry. Can you give us a link to the gadget you're thinking of buying?

Compudaro

Wouldn't something like this do the trick?

coylemj

I don't think it will do what you're looking for. That device takes a signal from a SCART 'OUT' socket on the likes of a CCTV or DVD, it converts it to a UHF channel (you decide which channel) and you can then send it around a co-ax circuit and receive the signal on a remote TV by tuning it to that channel.

In your case that means that you'd be able to play a DVD movie in one room and watch it on a TV in another room via your internal co-ax cable but it will not allow you to pass the full digital signal from one room to another which is what you're trying to do.

Compudaro

I think it'll work if I connect it to her Pace STB in the bedroom (SCART out) and then use the RF out on the modulator to send the picture to the bedroom TV via co-ax. The only issue is that I think the modulator only handles composite and not RGB and I don't know which type the PACE outputs? Any ideas? Thanks again

coylemj

Compudaro wrote: »

I think it'll work if I connect it to her Pace STB in the bedroom (SCART out) and then use the RF out on the modulator to send the picture to the bedroom TV via co-ax.

I think you mean 'to send the picture to the family room TV via co-ax', I'll reply on the basis that that's what you meant.

If you connect up as you describe what you will get in the family room is just the TV station that the Pace box is outputting on the VCR SCART socket so you'll need to go into the bedroom and use the remote to switch channels because that gadget you're looking at is receiving just one TV station from the SCART and sending it down the co-ax.

Compudaro wrote: »

The only issue is that I think the modulator only handles composite and not RGB and I don't know which type the PACE outputs? Any ideas? Thanks again

The VCR/AUX SCART port outputs composite, typically if a SCART port is labelled VCR it means it's outputting a composite signal, if it's labelled TV it means RGB. I can pick up my VCR output in an Archos in a docking station, the video is a composite signal.

Compudaro

Hi Coyle, that's exactly what I meant - Your detailed answer explains the lot - Thanks again!