Media center pc via TV (its black and white)

debs626

Have plugged my media center pc into my tv via the pc's Svideo socket to my tv scart socket, I have a scart socket adapter.

The picture is black and white :-(

I have no Idea how to get it in colour so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Debs

weemee

Hey,

This should be an easy one to fix. What make is the GFX card? Check the drivers are upto date, nout worse than out of date gfx drivers.

Is everything black and white?

irnbru_2

debs626 wrote:

The picture is black and white :-(

I have no Idea how to get it in colour so any help would be greatly appreciated.

It needs switching from NTSC to PAL TV format.

There should be an option in the control panel for your graphics card and therein a setting for the TV format.

Chaos

irnbru wrote:

It needs switching from NTSC to PAL TV format.QUOTE]

The problem is to do with the scart adaptor you are using - this is a quote from the ATI (graphics card designer) website.

"The symptoms described are not specific to ATI products. This Infobase is provided for the convenience of users especially in Europe. The signal on the TV set may show up black and white using a 3rd party S-VIDEO to SCART adapter.

A SCART connector only supports composite video. If you connect an S-VIDEO cable directly into a SCART adapter, the result will be a black and white signal, regardless of the type of graphics card being used.

There are preferred S-VIDEO to SCART adapters from 3rd party vendors that will properly give you colour display.

Third party S-VIDEO to SCART adapters are available from:

http://www.svideo.com
Please note: This site is a third party internet site on the World Wide Web. ATI provides such links for your convenience only, and is not responsible for the content of any site linked to or from this site. Links from this site to any other site do not mean that ATI approves of, endorses or recommends that site. ATI disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy, legality, reliability or validity of any content on any other site. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do this entirely at your own risk."

Hope that helps.

Terry