kenable Mercury Universal Scart RF RCA TV Video Modulator ILS102

A brilliant little device, highly recommended. I'm using it to pipe our recorded freeview programs and DVDs from the family room to the adjoining kitchen/dining room.I bought this to replace an old VH89 "digital video sender" from Maplin that had been great for years but developed a "fuzzy picture" problem around the time the analog signal was switched off in our area earlier this year. When the scart only was connected, the output picture was clean. But when the freeview lead was also plugged in, the picture became very grainy. I'm not a techie but my guess is the freeview signal got boosted when the analog was switched off and the old modulator couldn't handle it. It wasn't a faulty device as I had two and they both did it. This new Mercury modulator shows a clean picture in all cases so I'm really pleased with it.This new modulator also has a very easy up/down button and LED display to choose the channel number, unlike the arcane dip switches on the other modulator. This new one also has a pass-thru scart output which might prove useful.All in all, very pleased with this and it certainly solved the problem I was having with a grainy picture in the kitchen.

So i'm thinking - how can I watch my new Sky Sports in my bedroom, when it's installed in my living room?As I was searching for Scart cables and contemplating drilling through walls (again) Amazon showed this related gadget in some search results - I wouldn't have known this was possible if Amazon hadn't shown me - so thumbs up for the Amazon shopping engine..!And not only can it pipe the signal from you scart source (STB, DVD Player etc...) , it can also carry the normal Antenna freewiew signal - so you don't have to switch from one source to another - it does everything.1) plug in all the cables2) make sure your sending a scart signal so the bedroom TV can latch on to it - i.e. play a film...3) do an auto tune / factory reset of your bedroom TV4) Bingo! your Scart signal will be available on an ANALOGUE channel (default is 36) - and you also have all the usual digital TV channelsThe whole thing takes 10 minutes (and that's mainly the tv autotune)- my LG tv is about 3 years old.Now I can get freeview and sky sports at the touch of a button.As for quality of signal - my eyes aren't 20/20 but I can't really tell the differenceI've also ordered a remote control sender kit so I can change channels from Bedroom too...Well, well, well impressed - great piece of kit.Hope this helpsCol

This is an inexpensive, easy to install, analogue PAL modulator with mono sound, (so far as I can tell, nicam stereo ones don't exist). It is ideal for sending pictures from from a DVD or PVR around a home aerial distribution system to small screen TVs in bedrooms and kitchens. It is compatible with the scart output of a Humax T2 PVR, enabling me to watch HD in the living room at the same time as sending SD around the house, (setting the T2 scart o/p to CVBS in the menu slightly improves the picture). The picture quality is identical to that from the built in modulator of a Humax 9200T, slightly soft. Further investigation with a high quality DVD player and test disk revealed that the soft pictures were due to the rather basic Humax PAL encoders, the modulator doesn't significantly affect the picture. To be fair to Humax and no doubt others, people mainly use RGB SCART or better still HDMI these days. The PAL encoders and sometimes modulators are only there for compatibility with VHS machines and very old TVs, neither of which require high quality pictures. In view of the price it's hard not to give this a 5 star rating.

Like a lot of people I bought this as I have gone from Sky to Virgin Media so needed a replacement magic eye type solution although in theory you should be able to use it for anything. I wasn't too impressed at first as the picture I was getting although watchable was quite fuzzy. I had always had a decent picture on the 2nd tv from the sky box RF out. Most reviewers on here have quoted very good picture quality It occurred to me I may have been using the wrong coax socket on the modulator. I was. I had my connection to the 2nd tv into the aerial socket rather than the tv/vcr one probably as I had removed the adapter plug off the end of the cable so had just put the cable into wherever it would fit. There's probably a valuable life lesson there. I now have a near perfect picture given the kitchen tv is a 10 year old budget lcd model. I think from memory the picture is better than I was getting from the sky RF out. It is easy to tune in even if you don't have it connected correctly. As the TV is pre digital it doesn't seem to matter what channel I have the modulator set to. It does get a bit warm so I switch it off when not in use. I have combined it with the Marmitek remote control pyramids as have many others. At times our magic eye sunning off the sky box would refuse to operate the remote. If I had been aware of these products I might have replaced that set up with these two products. All in all not a bad piece of kit, does what you want it to do,. which is all you can ask. Maybe not totally idiot proof but that's no fault of the equipment. If you aren't getting the desired results wade through the reviews on here and persevere with it