Help with S video to Scart connection

Elfman

Hi all

I recently bought an S video to scart to be able to use my laptop on a television how ever when i connect up and select the tv as my monitor the screen comes up in black and white any idea as to what im doin wrong ??

could it be the tv is to old ??

anyway any help would be great cheers

KdjaCL

Change output to PAL in Display properties.


kdjac

zoro

I have a brand new tv and I had a similar problem
I found that if I set my tv's channel to "SVHS" it had colour, but if it was on the AV or scart-channels that it was black and white.

But if it's an old TV then it's likely that Kdjac's suggestion is the problem

motrocco

I ahd the same problem. I'd bought crappy leads. Nothing to do with the telly at all.

Forget where I bought them but you really want gold tip, insulated, blah blah, blah leads.

I got a 24ft one for cheap if I remember rightly.

Found the site.
http://www.svideo.com/compaq1700.html

See at the bottom of the page.

Worked great for me. Shame I bought several before from Harvey F'ing Norman, the theiving swine.

Tom Dunne

Same here - I went through around five different leads before I bought one off s-video.com (ordered it over Christmas and received it within a week).

It's nothing to do with the TV, it's the lead/connector.