My pac-man tv games thing is only outputting black and white video. I tried replacing the cable, but that didn't work. I tried a different tv, that didn't work either. Why is this happening? This happens on my dvd recorder too.
edit: Oddly, when I plugged it into a third tv, it worked fine, but it still doesn't work on the other two. Why is this? I know the other two tvs work fine, I tried them with a different tv games thing.
Black and white video coming out of tv games.
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Re: Black and white video coming out of tv games.
Is there anything else plugged into the TV? Sometimes our main TV only shows black and white on composite if there's something hooked up to Component or S-Video (unless you use the front inputs).
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Re: Black and white video coming out of tv games.
You most often see black and white output when using devices with mis-matched colour spaces when and the display device doesn't support both PAL/NTSC (ie a PAL device on an NTSC tv or a NTSC device on a PAL tv).
Re: Black and white video coming out of tv games.
I've had one TV Game --a Simon Says/Battleship-- that came out black-and-white on my 1980's TV, but works fine on TVs made more recently. Best guess was miss-matched impedance between the two, as both were NTSC. Other TV games, including Pac-Man, worked fine.
It could be a weird fluke like the Simon Says I encountered, though, with the DVD recorder causing trouble, I'm leaning towards what MegatronUK said, a device not designed for your region. You might want to check the settings of the recorder, as it could be just set to the wrong video format.
It could be a weird fluke like the Simon Says I encountered, though, with the DVD recorder causing trouble, I'm leaning towards what MegatronUK said, a device not designed for your region. You might want to check the settings of the recorder, as it could be just set to the wrong video format.