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Hi, my name is Liam, welcome to the Tesco Tech Support guide to connecting
everything to your TV. There are many different things you can connect to a TV; a Freeview
box, DVD player Blue-Ray player, games console, hard driver recorder, surround sound systems
and so on, they can be hard work to figure out how to connect them.
Firstly, a little bit of information on the quality of different connectors, HDMI is the
highest quality of connector at the moment, it carries a high definition picture and can
carry surround sound as well. Component cables aren't very common here but
can also carry high definition pictures but no sound.
Scart cables have been around a long time now and carry standard definition pictures
and stereo sound.\ S-Video and composite cables also carry video
signals but generally are not as good as scary cables and do not carry sound. \
Digital optical and coaxial cables are used to carry surround sound usually to a surround
sound amplifier. Always aim to use the highest quality connection you can. If your kit has
HDMI sockets then use them. For Blue-Ray and latest DVD players it's easiest to use a HDMI
cable, otherwise use scart or component. Only use S-Video or composite if there is no other
option. Here are a few examples. Firstly lets connect our free-sat HD box to the TV using
HDMI. Then our Blue-Ray with HDMI.
Finally, our old video recorder to scart one,
note that this socket also provides an output for the TV's built in Freeview tuners.
Now we will look at adding a hard drive or DVD recorder. If your TV already has Freeview
built in, you can use the Freeview tuner in your hard drive recorder to record a different
channel to the one you are watching, here's how. Connect the ariel to the recorder box,
use the loop through output to connect an area cable from the recorder to the TV, then
connect the scart or HDMI cable from the recorder to the TV as well.
Many home cinema systems have blue-ray or
DVD players built in but say you have a Sky HD or Free-Sat box from which you want to
get surround sound, you just run a digital, coaxial or optical cable from the HD box to
the surround sound box. You'll need to mute the sound on the TV and play it back through
the surround sound system. You may need to change the Sky or Free-Sat box settings to
send surround sound through the optical or coaxial output.
The Wii isn't a high definition source, so we'll look ok through scart or composite.
Here's an example of where we have connected it using a scart adaptor.
We hope this video guide has been useful,
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