THE BIG DAY At about 5pm yesterday the virgin media engineer turned up with my shinny new v+ box, the installation was straight forward. The guy ran through the basic functions of the box with me which took no longer than 10 minutes,he also left a booklet with some of the more advanced functions of the box. During the install he fitted the hdmi cable and checked the hd was ok on the bbc test channel. My only gripe with the install was the fact that before i had the old samsung v box which when it was intalled a few months ago the engineer wired it up to my home theatre system, when i asked the guy yesterday he said the only way this could be done with the v+ box was to wire it up on the scart lead, which he did but this turned off the hdmi output therfore loosing the ability to watch the high def stuff availible also loosing the upscalling ability of the hdmi output on sdtv.
So my question is, can this be done or was he right?
my tv is a LG 37LC2DB and my home theatre system is also made by LG it is a LH-T550TB (it doesnt have an optical input so cant be wired directly from the v+ optical out)
Any advise would be helpfull as i am missing my sourrond sound already
Sorry one more question when i try to watch some of the hd material availible via the more on demand then free hdtv sometimes my box will act as though it starts to play but when the counter apears in the bottom left of the screen it freezes on 00:00 for a few seconds the the screen goes blank, the only way to remedy this is by pressing the reset button. Has anybody else got this problem if so what is the fix?