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It's a HDMI HDCP conflict between the HDMI input on the TV and the HDMI output on the Sky box. The socket remains live even if the TV is off. Part of the HDMI cable includes a 5V feed which draws power from the Sky box. HDMI can be finicky, and if all the devices aren't up to their latest...

The query is a bit of a jumble, so let's simplify and see if we're still on the right track. Customer has a home cinema. The projector is a 4K HDR-capable Sony 260 SXRD. Sound is provided by a Bose Lifestyle 650 system. There is one source. This was a 1080p device, and connected via the HDMI on...

To add to what @martygturner wrote, is your LNB a Wideband type (Sky Q) or standard Sky HD type? Alternatively, is your Freesat box one of the 4K models or a Manhatten/Humax etc?

Do you want to just receive, or to receive and record? If it's just for watching live, then any Sky HD box being flogged off cheap/given away locally will do. Check Facebook Marketplace. A single cable connection from the dish to the box is all that's needed. Sky's electronic programme guide...

I'd be amazed, and impressed, if it worked. All the theory says it shouldn't. Cat5e bandwidth is something like 100MHz, or maybe 300~350MHz if it was the better grade stuff (more wire twists, more copper). Digital TV signals operate in the 470-700MHz range. Cat5e bandwidth is nowhere close...

Pretty much as you se here, except with the addition of some self amalgamating tape for waterproofing. What we have here is some screw-on F plugs (4x in this image because they're joining two bits of shotgun cable) and a couple of F-type back-to-back connectors. You can get all of this from a...

Hmm.. big space with lots of hard surfaces so quite reverberant. That's a bit of a challenge for a major sound system. Do you want to spend smart speaker money or home theatre money? Do you have anywhere that can be used as an A.V. hub point (houses amps and control gear) or do you want...

The simple answer is no. There isn't a way to get the screen image from a TV to your DVD recorder. The answer is to record directly in Windows (if you're using a PC). Once you have the video file, you can then decide how you want to process it for distribution. If there's anything that includes...

That's not a bad price for a caravan aerial either. Normally it's 'move the decimal point one place to the right'. ;) Satellite is generally the way to go, though. Most camp sites are in pretty parts of the country, and that means the back of beyond as far as Freeview goes. As long as you have...

That's it in a nutshell. I'm not having a pop, just pointing out the logical fallacy that's often presented in cases like this. It's the counterargument of "well, mine works fine" which then of course implies that all must work fine in every situation. When we look at the reviews for such...

The thing that all these stick antennas/aerials ignore is that transmitters use polarisation. Crystal Palace is a main transmitter. It uses horizontal polarisation. When you look at the roof top aerials trained on CP, they match the transmitter's horizontal polarisation. Here's a photo I took...

If you mean these sorts of things then I'd be tempted to give them a swerve. The construction will be similar to the coax fly-leads. That means that the cable is poorly shielded, and the internal joints between the cable's core and the pins is a solder joint (a weak point), and that an acidic...

Reading between the lines, and having fitted one or two wall sockets (;)), my guess is that you're concerned about kinking the cable as you try to fit it in the backbox space behind the wall plate. If making the junction box hole deeper isn't an option, you could try a 90 degree F plug...

Find if a neighbour has the same phone, or if a different make, then either way ask if you can look at how theirs is wired up. This will tell you which of the wires are used and which not (so you can cross them off the list). Next, which two wires for power, and which of the two is +ve and -ve...

That's the correct way round for your cat-sitting needs. One observation, this unit also scales the image to 720p or 1080p. If you're serious about buying one, try to find something that keeps the resolution as-is. All TVs have a built-in scaler. They have to because a TV can see a wide array...

I'm saying that, at best, a SCART to HDMI convertor is no different to plugging in the yellow composite connector to the TV's AV (composite) connection. It just costs more money and uses up a HDMI socket that might be better used for something else. You see, the picture from SCART has the...

That's the wrong way around. It's for a DVD player with HDMI to work with at TV that has SCART. Your brother's Glass doesn't have SCART.

I'd be amazed if you could find SCART on any recent LED or OLED TV 32" or bigger, so it's not just Glass but virtually all TVs. The last time it was relatively common is when we had Plasma and before LCD TVs went thinner with the advent of LED backlighting. If there's a collection of DVDs...

That's probably more to do with the TV operating system. It has to load and do stuff before the TV is ready to use. Sony's Android TVs always used to seem to take forever to start. Turn the TV on, go get a beer, come back, noodle on your phone for a while, and Oh! It's finally ready. Moving...

The product name CT100 has sort of been hijacked. The original version of CT100 for digital era installations had the dielectric made up of 5 hollow tubes. This is what's meant by semi-airspaced. There's a page on it with pictures from Wright's Aerials...