I just said monitor to keep things easy, it is actually an HDMI to component converter that I was going to use.
HDMI out of the Freeview box converted to component in to my old slingbox so I had a better pic watching TV anywhere.
But the picture on my laptop/phone/computer was too dark so I had to go back to using composite video connectivity.
If it had been reasonably straightforward, I would have opened the converter and tried to modify it, but it looks like I will not be able to do this.
I even went looking on the intersphere for example diagrams but couldn't find any.
Thanks for your reply.