Phillips DirecTIVO question.

[Linflas]

My DirecTIVO unit occasionally loses color ie. what I see on the TV is all B&W including the menus. This has happened a couple of times while I was watching it but today I had to reset the unit to get the color back. It is recording fine, this only happens on the output. The output to my TV is through an S Video cable combined with left and right audio cables. I plan on returning it after I dump the recordings I want to save onto my computer but was curious if anyone else has seen this problem.

 

[Queasy]

Make sure the cable between your Tivo and your TV is all the way in on both. The only time I have seen B&W output is when my connection wasn't snug.

 

[dmurray14]

How weird...the exact same thing was happening to me today. I fixed it the same way you did - restarted it. I am also running over the SVIDEO cable, and I'm pretty sure it won't do it over composite. Usually, it only happens randomly throughout a day or so, then doesn't do it again for a month or so. I have no clue what it is. What kind of TV do you have?

Dan

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: dmurray14
How weird...the exact same thing was happening to me today. I fixed it the same way you did - restarted it. I am also running over the SVIDEO cable, and I'm pretty sure it won't do it over composite. Usually, it only happens randomly throughout a day or so, then doesn't do it again for a month or so. I have no clue what it is. What kind of TV do you have?

Dan

Toshiba CF32E50 32" set. I have had a Sony DirecTV SAT-A2 hooked up to it for years until I got this new unit. I used the existing wiring and added a RG6 line in for the 2nd tuner on the TIVO box.

 

[DaveJ]

Try a new Svideo cable, the one you have is probably bad. Svideo splits the signal into Luma and Chroma over separate wires, so you've probably got a bad connection for the Chroma signal.

Dave

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Make sure the cable between your Tivo and your TV is all the way in on both. The only time I have seen B&W output is when my connection wasn't snug.

Yep, same here. Try a new SVideo cable as well.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Queasy
Make sure the cable between your Tivo and your TV is all the way in on both. The only time I have seen B&W output is when my connection wasn't snug.

Yep, same here. Try a new SVideo cable as well.

Is it possible the fault is in the unit's SVideo connector? The reason I ask is because I now have the Sony hooked back up using the identical setup and the problem does not occur. I am close to the end of the 30 day return period for BB so I am probably going to exchange it just to be on the safe side.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Linflas

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Queasy
Make sure the cable between your Tivo and your TV is all the way in on both. The only time I have seen B&W output is when my connection wasn't snug.

Yep, same here. Try a new SVideo cable as well.

Is it possible the fault is in the unit's SVideo connector? The reason I ask is because I now have the Sony hooked back up using the identical setup and the problem does not occur. I am close to the end of the 30 day return period for BB so I am probably going to exchange it just to be on the safe side.

Could quite possibly be a bad connector. I'd exchange it as well just to be on the safe side.