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Hi all - here`s the scenario....only my living room TV has a roof-top ariel connected to it so is the only TV in the house that can receive terrestrial television as set-top ariels are no good round here, even through a booster, and I haven`t got digital cable yet.

To get around this I`ve just bought a Philips video sender, £90 in Argos. I`ve scarted the video recorder in the living room to the transmitter box and then the transmitter box is scarted to the TV. The receiver box is scarted to another TV in my office (I work from home part of the week) and the set-up is working fine. I am now watching the cricket via the channels tuned in to the video recorder in the living room while working at my desk. Everyone with me so far?

Here`s the problem - now that there is a box sitting `between` the video and the TV in the living room the auto-av feature on my TV has stopped working. i.e. when you put a video in and press play the TV doesn`t automatically pick it up and `turn over` - you have to do that manually. This is not good news as my two young daughters play videos all the time in the living room and need the films to just `come on`. Is there a way around this???

yours frustratedly :/
julianf

Serves you right- if you`re working from home you should`nt be watching the cricket!!!!

jc808

The throughput scart connection on the transmitter unit is blocking the 12v av trigger on the scart connected to the TV.
This is why the TV no longer switches to AV when a video cassette is used.
Or the transmitter box scart throughput is faulty ????

regards :)

Thanks Jake - can anyone else confirm whether their Philips VL1200 video sender does or does not stop the AV trigger working when they turn their video/dvd/cable device on so I can find out if mine is simply faulty...?

thanks
julianf