Product Description

Excellent for distributing signals via coaxial cable around your home. Just plug into the end scart in a chain of equipment/boxes and send them to another or several rooms. DVD/SATELLITE RECEIVER/SET TOP BOX/TV/CABLE/CD/VCR etc SCART IN /Composite IN SCART OUT (Loop Through, input video) PLL control circuitry Channel Adjustable by UP/DOWN key 2 Seven Segment LEDs for Channel Display Antenna /Aerial Input RF Output Last Channel Memory

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2102 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Mercury
• Model: 1

Features

• TV modulator allows the connection of SCART or phono video signals to the RF coaxial input of a TV or video. Ideal for CCTV, DVD and games consoles.
• Channels 21 - 69 output, Digital channel display for easy set up
• Mains adaptor supplied
• Scart thru allows modulators to be linked
• Blister packed

Customer Reviews

Great product, but doesn't work with all sources.
At first I was quite impressed with this modulator. I've had a similar unit from Maplin, but on that one you had to set the channel the device uses using a series of micro dip-switches, which is quite fiddly and you need to keep the instructions to look up which TV channel corresponds to which combination of dip-switch positions.

However, this unit allows you to select the TV channel it uses by using simply up/down buttons on the top of the unit, and it displays the channel on a red LED readout. So, setup is just a case of plugging the device in to the power, video source, and TV aerial cable, select a channel, tune in your TV, and you're done. So in that respect it's great.

The problem I had was that this device only worked with some of my video sources. I tried it with the following:

* Security camera via Scart input (didn't work).
* Different security camera via video phono input (didn't work).
* Sky box via Scart input (worked).
* DVD player via Scart input (worked).

All of the above devices work absolutely fine when connected by the same cables directly to the Scart/Video input on a TV. But, when the two different security cameras were connected to the device (separately of course) the picture suffered from massive distortion. It reminded me of the old encryption analogue Sky TV used to use - the edges of the picture became extremely wobbly and the image was not legible at all. I tried various different combinations of leads, channels, TVs, and sources, but I could never get either of my security cameras to work with this device.

It may be just coincidence, but the devices that worked both output RGB signals on the Scart lead. The devices that didn't work only output composite video. But, really, the device should work with both, or at the very least composite sources.

I ended up buying a very similar device (although slightly more expensive) from Maplin, which while ever-so-slightly more difficult to set up, worked perfectly with both security cameras.

As such, I'll give this device 3 stars, as it did work flawlessly with my DVD player and Sky box, and it's very easy to set up, however it did not work with either of the two security cameras I'd purchased it for. Praise is also due to Pertinax who sells the product through Amazon - their customer service was prompt and polite via email, and I got a very quick full refund on returning it.

does exactly what it says - great gadget!
compact and easy to use. Converts input signal from a scart cable to a standard coaxial arial cable - you just select the channel it broadcasts , tune the TV to receive it and it's job-done!
Great if your TV doesn't accept a scart cable (or in our case if you want to share a signal from a DVD player across 2 TV's by sending the signal down a coaxial cable which is split between them)

WORKS WELL WITH FOXSAT HDR
I purchased this little box in order to connect a bedroom TV to a FOXSAT HDR located in my lounge. I previously used a SkyPlus box which had an RF output but the FOXSAT HDR does not. I use a scart connector to connect the HDR to the modulator and use a 25 metre coax cable to the bedroom TV. I control the HDR remotely using the Marmitek PowerMid XL infrared extender set.

It all works remarkably well.