Black N White Pic On Freeview Box ?

A_LANCASHIRE_LAD_2

Had no problems with the freeview box until last night when i installed a dvd/vcr combi along side the tv set and the digibox and i now keep gettiing a b/w pic on freeview ? . Some times it returns then the colour filckers but returns back to b/w ??????
Any ideas ?????????????

jem16

Have you by any chance connected(by scart) your Freeview box through the DVD/VCR to get to the TV?

A_LANCASHIRE_LAD_2

My scart socket on freeview box ( one scart socket only ) goes from the freeview to the dvdcombi then one comes from the combi to the tv ?

jem16

First of all I would make sure that any scart cable are full pushed in. Sometimes scarts can be funny this way and one very slightly out could be enough to cause a problem.

Secondly if it's still the same I would try both plugged in to the TV on their own just to make sure nothing is wrong with either box or scart cable.

A B&W picture can sometimes be caused by using an S-Video signal into something not set up for S-Video but I can't imagine that would be the cause.

A_LANCASHIRE_LAD_2

ok thanks all the scarts are fully pushed in
Funny i have left the scart socket in the freeview box and put the other end in the tv ( so combi dvd /vcr isnt connected ) and hey presto colour back ???????

All beyond me lol

jem16

OK so the problem is not with the Freeview box.

Now try connecting only the DVD/VCR and see what happens.

A_LANCASHIRE_LAD_2

right i will check that out , jkust thought i had a bush basic video at my previous address which again i tried to pop in between the tv and freeview box and again bw pic ?

jem16

It's possibly because your Freeview box is set to output in RGB and a VCR cannot record RGB. However this tends to give a blank picture rather than b&w.

You're better with the chain of DVD/VCR to Freeview to TV but I know you can't do this as your Freeview box has only one scart.

A_LANCASHIRE_LAD_2

m funny because i did try and record a tv prog last night on a tape and it didnt tape it

jem16

Have a loo at the settings for Freeview and see if you have it set to ouput in RGB. If so you could change it to PAL and see what effect this has.

A_LANCASHIRE_LAD_2

It doesnt have any menu which shows this looks like i will have to swop the leads about to watch freeview and view vcrs and dvds thanks for youur help