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Black/white problems

punkbhoy (Harmless) posted this on Friday, 10th January 2003, 12:25

Hi i have a Toshiba SD-120E Multi region dvd player and a Sony super triniton KV-29F3U tv.Both do not have NTSC converters so region 0 and NTSC signals come out in black and white. I connect via AV1 using a scart lead ,on RGB i get sound but no picture. Is there anything i can do other than buy a converter? Thanks for any help

RE: Black/white problems

ralph 2 (Mostly Harmless) posted this on Friday, 10th January 2003, 14:31

I bought an earlier model SD110 chipped from techtronics for use on a naiko 28" widescreen.To my horror it gave B&W in scart1.They told me my tv was not ntsc compatible and i would have to change it or buy a converter.I bought a converter for around £35 which works ok.Through reading this forum i discovered i could change the output on my dvd via onscreen menu to rgb output and get a colour picture when connected to scart1 with a fully wired scart lead.Are you sure your lead is fully wired.As an aside i have also bought an alba 108 dvd which is great,multiregion out of the box and a built in convertor all for £70.

RE: Black/white problems

punkbhoy (Harmless) posted this on Saturday, 11th January 2003, 13:08

Not sure what you mean by my scart lead being fully wired. All i get thru my t.v. on RGB is sound. Makes no difference if i put my DVD player thru RGB. Thanks for the reply.

RE: Black/white problems

Mike G (Elite) posted this on Saturday, 11th January 2003, 14:37

"Fully wired" means that all of the pins of the SCART are connected via the cable. Some SCART cables are wired to carry composite video only, which means they won`t work in RGB mode.

You can easily verify this by looking at one of the SCART plugs - does it have a full set of 20 pins or are there pins missing? If it has 20 pins, open up the plug and make sure each one of these pins has a wire soldered to it. If that`s the case, then it is fully wired.

Mike

This item was edited on Saturday, 11th January 2003, 14:38

RE: Black/white problems

punkbhoy (Harmless) posted this on Tuesday, 14th January 2003, 11:23

Thanks for the help,checked my scart lead it was not fully wired. Changed it and everythings ok now. Thanks again

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