Interference on scart socket..

[Tumble]

I have a wee telly in my room for watching of the DVDs. Unfortunately, I get RF interference ghosting behind the picture when I'm viewing the DVD over the scart connection.

The scart plug is right next to the aerial connection - I'm thinking it may be an intrinsic design flaw - or would it be the cable itself being rubbish?

[Skii]

Yeah I get this too actually mate, wierd...

[Zak33]

We had that too.....got so bad wre used the Svideo input on the side, cos during DVD's we could hear the set top box Was SO bad I could hear the other channels loud enough to know what was going on on Eastenders
and then, I swapped all the cables around to do something else, and it went away. Same cables,...bemused to this day.


and never ever returned.

[Rave]

What happens when you pull the aerial lead out? Anyway, scart leads can be pretty prone to ghosting effects if they're badly shielded. Try wrapping a bit of tinfoil round the plug and the bit of the lead nearest the telly. If that doesn't help, try a better scart lead with some beefier internal shielding.

[Tumble]

tried a beefier scart... not much difference... I got the aerial coming through the VCR into the telly.. and the noise only goes away once I unplug the VCR.. just taking the plug out of the telly doesn't work...

[Legin76]

It is very close to a power cable? Sometimes they can cause ghosting.

Have you tried an aerial cable that has an interference apsorption block which may also make a difference. We have a range of profigold cables that do. But I couldn't guarantee it would fix your problem.

http://www.audiovisualonline.co.uk/d...e/display.html

[Tumble]

This is the setup on the back - it's only a wee portable jobby, so hasn't got any S-video or anything... the power is over the other side of the box..

[5lab]

it could actually be the telly

bare with me on this one

some scart leads have a pin, or something, to allow a signal to go thru that says 'look at me'. now maybe, if the tv is switched to scart 2, but the vhs is on scart 1 and is sat there going 'look at me', maybe the tv gets confused and puts both thru? it used to happen on a cheap scart switch box i had..

[Tumble]

naa that aint it.. I've only got the one cable - it gets swapped between the VCR and DVD as required. The telly's only got the one socket... I don't get RF interference when watching a VHS over the scart either. Just DVD.

[Legin76]

I'm just wondering if its just that the cables are to close together with little shielding on each.

You could also try a flat scaert cable such as this Flat Scart Lead

[kushtibari]

Is it possible that its the frequency that the VCR is set to thats causing it?

[weebroonieuk]

mate i bet its the telly im not sure how much a small portable is these days but im guessing under a 100 ?

[5lab]

you can get 14"ers for £50 new

[weebroonieuk]

i would do that , christ a decent scart cable can cost 30 40 quid , and if the new tv doesnt sort your probs u could take it back same day an get your money back

personally id upgrade a little , get a little 20 inch with built in dvd , there so cheap now its daft not
even one without a dvd drive would do i hate small screens even if its rarely used

[DigiGuru]

I paid £75 and got a 20" Pacific (yeah, I've never heard of it either, but the picture is good )

[weebroonieuk]

pacific im sure done those cheap dvd players in asda i got one to test dvds i backed up and to test mp3 dvds not a problem with it

i say get a new telly