TV playing B&W with DSTV std decoder

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tanzro

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I have recently graduated from my trusty 54cm tube tv to a Samsung Series 4 LCD tv, which would be awesome if I could watch DSTV in colour............

I bought new Zakspeed digital rca cables hoping that would resolve my problem but nope, nada, niks. R180 for nothing.

Can anyone tell me why my DSTV doesn't pick up colour, but when I watch TV via my normal TV aerial the picture is perfect. I have played around with the cables, no combinations seem to work. Is there something i can do on the TV itself?

I have tried resetting the decoder (I have the old Standard DSD1110 model).
 
My Sansui does the same with standard DSTV decoder when I use S-Video. But it's fine when I use coax or rca. Have you tried changing the output from dstv to the tv by pressing the green button on the dstv remote a couple of times and cycling through the outputs?
 
tanzro said:
I have played around with the cables, no combinations seem to work. Is there something i can do on the TV itself?
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You absolutely sure you have it plugged into the right port on the TV. Only thing I can think of is you're accidentally using one of the component inputs instead of composite.
 
Go to Advanced Settings (9949) and make sure the TV output is set to S-video instead of RGB
 
chrisc4290 said:
Go to Advanced Settings (9949) and make sure the TV output is set to S-video instead of RGB
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Those setting apply to the SCART output on older decoders that have them, will have no effect on the composite (AV/RCA) port.
 
New tv's usually come with 2 sets of RCA inputs, AV1 and AV2.If you're using both there might be interference.
 
I think you might very well be plugging it into the wrong inputs, as Roman said... otherwise something is faulty.

DrYes said:
New tv's usually come with 2 sets of RCA inputs, AV1 and AV2.If you're using both there might be interference.
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Never heard of interference from using both AV inputs.
 
I have the same issue with an old DSD660 DSTV Decoder here - as soon as you set it to S-VIDEO on the SCART Output settings options, you will get a Black & White picture on the TV set's S-VIDEO inputs.

This appears to be a 'SOFTWARE' issue that cropped up after one of Multichoice's 'bugware updates' a while ago, and the only solution is to set the DSTV Decoder SCART settings to COMPOSITE, and use the regular RCA AV inputs (AV1, AV2, etc) for connecting the DSTV decoder to the TV set.
 
For everyone suggesting S-video through SCART issues, the OP is not using S-video... :confused:

For everyone suggesting PAL/NTSC issues, it's working fine through RF... ;)
 
D3x! said:
this.
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see here, see the input with the yellow ring around, you HAVE to use that for AV, i.e these TV's only have ONE AV input.

depending on model, like this one has one on the side as well.

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Black and white with a composite cable normally means its really a component signal plugged into a composite input in my experience...
 
tanzro said:
I bought new Zakspeed digital rca cables
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There's no such thing as a digital cable :)

Quantum Theory said:
For everyone suggesting PAL/NTSC issues, it's working fine through RF... ;)
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Where does he say that? All I can find is this part
tanzro said:
but when I watch TV via my normal TV aerial the picture is perfect.
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which means he's referring to SABC, etv, etc being picked up fine by his areal (unless I'm missing something).

I'm also going with the decoder not outputting a PAL signal.
 
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