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Megan79

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#225767 4-Dec-2017 22:45

Hi all

I have no tech skills at all so need your help please. My husband brought a new smart TVs but our current sky box used to connect to tvs via a scart plug to red,yellow and white wires into the tv.

There is no place in new tv for red white and yellow plugs. how can I connect old sky box to smart TVs

Thanks

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#1913033 4-Dec-2017 22:47

What model/make is the TV?

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#1913034 4-Dec-2017 22:59

Does the sky box not have an HDMI too?

Else ring Sky for an updated box that should be free too
(they own the box anyway, and should bend over backward to keep a customer as old/committed as you must be to have such an old version of their box.)

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#1913039 5-Dec-2017 00:36

Megan79: Hi all

I have no tech skills at all so need your help please. My husband brought a new smart TVs but our current sky box used to connect to tvs via a scart plug to red,yellow and white wires into the tv.

There is no place in new tv for red white and yellow plugs. how can I connect old sky box to smart TVs

Thanks

Use HDMI cable, not scart.

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#1913043 5-Dec-2017 07:02

It probably has a green socket, which doubles as green/yellow and is selected from the menu. But as others have said use HDMI if you have one as the picture will look awful on the composite video ( yellow connection)

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#1913057 5-Dec-2017 08:06

TV will have something like this, and will be similar on the Sky box

XPD / Gavin

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#1913083 5-Dec-2017 09:19

There's new decoder boxes that have hdmi. Of course they'll try the upsell to mysky - if you can get it for free then that's a good option, but my brother in law has a newer box now and it has the HDMI rather than composite/scart connection.

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#1913195 5-Dec-2017 10:49

xpd:

TV will have something like this, and will be similar on the Sky box

Thank you for including pictures when speaking to a non-technical person.

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