Archives for August, 2009
High end cable manufacturer Lindy Electronics have announced a fibre optic HDMI extender that can send an HDMI signal up to 300m using a single SC duplex multimode fibre optic cable.
The Virgin Media V+ box has a variety of connectors to get the picture and sound to your TV, we’ll start off with the picture connections. The V+ box has 3 video output connections:- Scart – The scart connection supports RGB, RGB with composite sync (RGBS) and composite video (CVBS). The V+ box scart connection […]
A common problem when switching from analogue to digital TV (freeview) is that not all channels are received, the most common probelm is the TV aerial. UHF TV channels are grouped by frequency, the aerial groups are A B CD E K & W, group A covers channels 21-37, group B channels 35-53, group CD channels […]
KURO means black in Japanese and black is at the very heart of the KURO concept. Blacker than ever, a KURO flat screen TV creates black tones of such depth and purity that every detail, every colour, every shade becomes brilliantly alive. Just 64mm thin and with a separate media receiver connected using a displayport […]
VGA cable has a pin missing is a common issue, the VGA cable pinout lists pin 9 as being a ‘key pin’ that has no function so many manufacturers leave the pin out of the connector, this causes some confusion but for most applications the pin is not necessary. There are however 3 other variants […]
Owners of some older plasma and LCD TVs without HDMI inputs are finding themselves stuck with watching Standard Definition (SD) pictures from HD sources even though they have high resolution panels. Early panels supported High Definition TV HDTV via the component video inputs but many HD devices including Sky HD boxes have now dropped the […]
5 star award-winning Techlink HDMI Cables can now be purchased in lengths up to 50m, we tested the 50m HDMI cable using a Sky HD box connected to a Sony Bravia TV and the picture was perfect at the Sky HD maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080i. The long hdmi cables are part of the award-winning […]
The best way to connect a PC to a TV depends on the connectors you have available, we will start by discussing older TVs that don’t have digital inputs such as HDMI or DVI. CRT TVs tend to have scart sockets as the primary connection, to connect a PC to a scart the PC or […]
An HDMI to DVI cable converts 19 pin HDMI to single link DVI-D, the cable is bi-directional so can convert from DVI to HDMI as well. A common issue with this cable is that it gives a picture but no sound, this is because the DVI connection normally only supports video as the name suggests, […]
What is an HDMI Matrix switch? It is an HDMI switch that allows 2 or more inputs to be connected to 2 or more outputs simultaneously, for example a 2 x 2 HDMI matrix switch has two inputs and two outputs, we could connect a blu ray DVD to input 1 and a Sky HD box to input 2, […]
An HDMI splitter is a device that splits an HDMI signal to multiple displays, sometimes called an HDMI Distribution Amplifer. Suppose you wanted to watch Sky HD on 2 TVs, an HDMI splitter could be used to duplicate the input and give 2 identical outputs. The number of outputs provided is referred to as ports or […]
Despite being launched over 2 years ago displayport cables have struggled against the HDMI cable. Displayport has the advantage that there is no licensing required to use the connectors but manufacturers have been slow to adopt it. During recent months the displayport cable seems to have become more popular as manufacturers start to use the […]
Connecting a Sky HD box to a surround system will enhance your viewing experience especially when watching movies, to get the multichannel sound a digital connection must be made from the Sky HD box to the surround amplifier. If the surround sound system has an HDMI input it would seem the most obvious choice would […]
On 27th May 2009 HDMI Licensing LLC released version 1.4 of the HDMI Cable specification, the main changes include offering networking capability and a return audio channel, details of the individual enhancements are detailed below. HDMI Ethernet Channel The HDMI 1.4 cable specification will add a data channel to the HDMI cable and will enable […]
Welcome to TV Connections, here we look at the various ways of connecting a televisions, displays, media devices and home cinema systems etc. For the past 30 years the scart lead has been the primary connection cable for connecting a device to a TV but in the last 3 years everything has changed as we […]
ITV has announced that they will launch an HD channel on the Freeview platform later this year. A statement from the broadcaster said they had agreed final terms with the BBC (as the operator of Multiplex B which will deliver Freeview HD) to launch an ITV1 HD service on Freeview in advance of the World […]