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Sunday, October 30th, 2011 10:52 PM

Black & White picture?

I upgraded some of my equipment at home. I wanted a HD reciever small enough to fit behind my newly installed 52

' Vizio mounted over my mantel.I moved the HD reciever I have had to the bedroom,H21-200. When I did this, the reciever in my spare bedroom (3rd reciever) "had to be" upgraded? I now have a D12-100 as a 3rd reciever. I use this reciever to tail gate with. When I hooked it up, I found the correct setup to get picture and sound but it was in black & white? I brought it back home to hook back up in spare bedroom and still black & white picture. I wrote down the settings before I unhooked the first time and returned reciever to this setting when I got home. It is just like it was tail gateing, black & white. Please help?

Expert

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32K Messages

13 years ago

how are you connecting the D12 receiver to your TV?  Note that newer TV's combine the composite input with the component input.  make sure that you are connecting the video (composite) to the right input.  and some TV's requires that the user changes the settings to specify that the component input be use as a composite.  some TV's do this automatically.

Contributor

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3 Messages

13 years ago

Thanks for your help. Both TV's ( bedroom & tailgating) are older models. Mitsubishi 7 yrs old, Sony 8 yrs old. Can I assume that the setting in the D12 is the cause of the black & white because I didn't change anything on the tv settings? Or, it's the way I am hooking it up?

ACE - Sage

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46.4K Messages

13 years ago

How are you connecting the D12's video output to your TV?  Which connections are you using?  

 

The correct connection should be D12's Composite Video (yellow RCA cable) OUT to matching TV video INPUT.

Contributor

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3 Messages

13 years ago

PROBLEM SOLVED! Thanks so much!! You are so correct about the yellow cable not matching. I got color picture again.

ACE - Sage

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46.4K Messages

13 years ago

Good to hear. Enjoy!

Expert

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32K Messages

13 years ago

Awesome.  Enjoy!


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