Does your virgin box  have a spare scart socket to connect to the DVD player? You may have to get another scart cable..man I've got about five in my drawer,not much help to you i know,

yes the virgin box has 2 sockets

Sorry..... I'm not sure.... but someone is bound to be able help you Aimee

i'm a bliddy nightmare baz where things like this are concerned

Maybe check the DVD instuctions etc,my old TV had the video recorder and the freeview box connected etc,via the video scarts.Maybe DVD's are the same...

i haven't got the instructions anymore

yeah.. you have to string all three together... 

Aimee... this will either be really really simple... or a right bleedin mare!!!

I once removed some of our leads to clean behind the telly area... I was gonna label them, but it looked so simple I didn't bother.   We had no Sky tv for a fortnight cos none of us could suss it out.

Good luck!

Aww Aimee,awaits a more knowledgable person to come forword.Is your TV and older model?

that bits easy.... google the dvd make and model no. and instruction manual... and get an online copy!

you can buy multi scart boards like plug boards but they don't give a good pic. Another way is to plug you virgin box into your dvd player & then plug your dvd scart into the TV but you have to have two connections on your virgin box & dvd player. Or AV leads (red, yellow & white)

where would i put the ariel lead abo?

back of the tv to the back of the virgin box. I also found this online

Your virgin box should have two scart sockets,if you only have one scart socket on the tv then...Put a scart lead in the one marked tv on the box and plug it into the tv,then from av1 on your dvd take a scart and plug into the other socket on the box.If you cannot get the dvd to play when the box is on then switch the box off.

yes... what abo says... 

that sounds like our set up...

back of the tv to the back of the virgin box. I also found this online

Your virgin box should have two scart sockets,if you only have one scart socket on the tv then...Put a scart lead in the one marked tv on the box and plug it into the tv,then from av1 on your dvd take a scart and plug into the other socket on the box.If you cannot get the dvd to play when the box is on then switch the box off.

nightmare in my case  this is when you need a man

Thanks abo  

i'll be like you with all the wires tomorrow

Started to read this thread but you lost me at help Good luck

we've got bloody wires all over the place cause the computer is hooked upto the TV & the TV is hooked upto dvd/video combo player, dvd player & sky.

theres 2 blondes in this house, we get stuck at help as well

I would pay a TV bloke to do it for you... Less stress all round....It IS Complicated....

Have you sorted it? I think mine is like that... connect the DVD player to the virgin box with one scart lead, then connect the virgin box to the tv with the other scart lead. See if that works

Sorry, I'm not at my flat so I cant check how its set up! I think that should work though You have to turn off the virgin to get the DVD player to work though, although, when I turn mine on, it switches the sky box off automatically

oh don't you beleive it Aims...  I thought, given that my hubby is way more addicted to the telly than I am, that that would incentivise him to actually get a booklet out and work it out.   He did kinda try a couple of times. 

But if you want something doing... you gotta do it yourself (I did in the end.. with the booklets... starting from scratch on my own in the quiet daytime)

You can buy a multi scart adapter of which you plug in the main scart into the hole at the back of the tv and then the scart from virgin box into scart socket on adapter and then the dvd scart into the second hole on adapter.

But if you just want to watch a dvd just unplug the virgin scart at back of tv and plug in your dvd scart and you can watch dvd simples.....

One word of advice, even if you have adapter with dvd and virgin in it, the minute the dvd player is turned on it overrides the signal from any other receiver.

OH ya don't need bloody men,just some good scart cables etc.My rabbits have had mine now and then!

I'm bottle brunette so it's not a hair colour thing trust me

lol

I made the mistake of unplugging all mine a few weeks ago to clean....erm, it took me hours to set the whole bloody lot back up again....I went out and bout one of those Scarts with a board to plug 4 more into (1 into the back of the TV)...and hey presto, I cracked it. They're only about a tenner from argos

that sounds easy enough, i'll give your method a go


Thanks everyone

*fingers crossed Aimee*

oh Aimee, they might be numbered... connect 1 to the TV

Thanks saz

it worked saz, thanks

Yay so Aimee is now unstuck, yes?

i'm ok now karma

yaaaay fab See, piece of piss  

Who needs a man, eh Aimee?