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Posted by Joe Murphy Jr (A) on April 11, 2004 at 21:46:25

In Reply to: Re: S-video or composite posted by Syncros on April 11, 2004 at 09:18:16:

>>>I meant to put this in the other post, but thank you for spending some time on this with me.<<<

You are quite welcome.

MonsterCable makes their connectors Grip of Death tight. I damaged an input on an old receiver with one of their cables. Had to have it repaired by a shop. I read about a guy in California who had a joyous experience with them. Seems there was an earthquake an several things were knocked off of walls, moved around and such. Two of his components slid off of the entertainment center and were left hanging after the quake. Hanging by MonsterCables!

Yes, the Y, Pb and Pr connections must be correct to get the right picture. You'll get all sorts of crap if you connect them incorrectly from screwed up color/no color to no picture. If you hook up just the Y signal cable, you will get a black & white picture. Some people actually disconnect the Pb and Pr cables when they are calibrating a display's Brightness and Contrast settings.

You might try this. Get three different cables (any three audio or video RCA cables will do) and try using them to get the video game systems to work. If you don't get a picture at first, try jiggling them around at the connector -- just the Y signal cable will do -- and see if you get at least a B&W picture. If the MonsterCables were damaged (though I doubt it), you'll know what to replace. If that doesn't do it, it may be possible that either the receiver's video inputs are damaged, the game systems' video outputs are damaged or both. I hope that's not the case, but I have seen it happen.

Here's a long shot. Does your receiver handle progressive signals? If it doesn't, maybe the game systems are set to progressive mode and hold their settings when they are unplugged. That may be why you aren't getting a picture. Since you get a picture from the DVD player, even if it's a progressive player, it may have defaulted to interlaced mode when it was unplugged. Many have to be reset when they are unplugged for a while. If the DVD player isn't a progressive player, then there is no progressive mode to use.

If the receiver does handle progressive signals, you may still have to set it up in the menu to accept progressive signals (maybe even per input) because it too may have defaulted to interlaced when it was unplugged for a while.

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