Sky Digital Colour

bdg

Can anyone answer why my sky digital colour appears in black and white at times and at other time with the colours distorted.

DMC

Is it specific to a few channels or all?

What make and how old is your TV, and do you use RF or Scart?

bdg

Tv is a Sanyo of about 3 years old and the digibox is a silver grundig of about 1 year old. It happens with all channels and I use a scart.

Gadgie

Originally posted by bdg
Tv is a Sanyo of about 3 years old and the digibox is a silver grundig of about 1 year old. It happens with all channels and I use a scart.

Is the scart lead connected properly? Is it in the proper TV scart socket and not the VCR one? (TV socket should be the bottom socket on a Grundig) Do you have the picture output set to PAL or RGB? If RGB, does your tv support RGB signals? Does the colour distortion happen when watching via the RF socket?

HTH,

Glenn

Tony

Originally posted by bdg
Can anyone answer why my sky digital colour appears in black and white at times and at other time with the colours distorted.

Make sure the sanyo tv is not set to s-vhs in the set up menu

Genghis

I have a grundig box too, and this occassionally happens - even the EPG comes up in black and white. From the replies here it doesn't seem to be a common problem - up til now I assumed it was a bad signal which effected all users - guess it is probably a problem with Grundig boxes.

I also notice that if you use the + channels button to scan up the channels rapidly, once you hit about 400 the EPG for Interactive comes on for no reason. I wonder if this is another little Grundig bug.

mocar

mine does the same and its a grundig silver box. I too thought that it was just the signal coming in wonky....
Ive done all the wiggling of wires etc. but no joy
mo

mocar

just realised Gengis you are in the midlands too... maybe a midlands problem???
mo

Mossy Monk

no problems at all with the black Grundig

Genghis

Originally posted by mocar
mine does the same and its a grundig silver box. I too thought that it was just the signal coming in wonky....
Ive done all the wiggling of wires etc. but no joy
mo

That's the one I have.

Possibly a midlands problem, perhaps pov of installer, rather than transmission (is satellite subject to geographic discrepancies within the main footprint?).

Which county was your installer from?

Samson

I do not think this problem is limited to the midlands.
I'm in Dublin and suffer from this problem too.
I have a silver Grundig digibox.

dmeehan

well im in cork and i have no problems with my silver grundig box
well not yet anyway...

Coyote

same thing happends on my silver grundig box on chanel 327 TMC and no the menu a few days ago ? werid

Coyote

bdg

Thanks Glennus and Tony for the info.
I have finally solved the problem. The tv as suggested had only one rgb scart socket, therefore I patched the correct sockets to each other, set both the tv and digibox to the appropriate settings(i.e. colour output type on digibox to match colour input type on tv) and bobs your uncle all is appearing in perfect picture quality.

DMC

Excellent! Another fine days work from the ICDG/boards.ie community!

Take a bow, young sirs!

"I love it when a plan comes together!"

Gadgie

Originally posted by bdg
Thanks Glennus and Tony for the info.

No problem, I'm always happy to help a soul in need :-)

Now if I could only manage to re-align my own dish... *grumble grumble*... no signal no matter wherever I move it... *grumble grumble*... ;-)

Glenn

Gadgie

BTW did this manage to fix the problems of the other users who reported the same symptoms?

Glenn

mocar

im in laois btw. I hope it would help if i could understand the instructions. :-(. A bit of a non technie here....

mo.

Gadgie

Originally posted by mocar
im in laois btw. I hope it would help if i could understand the instructions. :-(. A bit of a non technie here....

mo.

If your TV is connected to the digibox by a scart lead, check that the scart lead is inserted properly, and that it's in the bottom scart socket on the digibox.

Press 'services' on your remote, then press 4, then 1. You should now be in picture/display settings. Check whether the scart control is set to on or off (set it to on), and check whether the picture output is set to PAL or RGB (RGB is best if your TV supports it, but set it to PAL and see if the problem goes).

If your TV is only connected via the RF socket (aerial lead), switch the digibox off while viewing the channel it is tuned into, and see if there is any interference from other channels on that channel number. If there is you will need to change the channel output setting in the secret installers menu, to do this press 'services', 4, 0, 1, and then 'select'. Then choose the RF outlets setting and type in a free channel number between 21 and 69 (the lowest free channel number possible is best, as this gives the best picture quality [not as good as SCART though]).

HTH,

Glenn

mocar

thanks glenn hope i can follow it... will try to be sober...
will report back maybe by the weekend....
mo