Different Black & white Issue (i think)

[KPoulton]

HI, a newbie on here, but have searched for articles on people having black and white picture issues, and nothing seems to match mine.

I am setting up a MS MCE 2005 machine,
Key components

The WinTV-PVR-500MCE
a G Force FX 5700 Graphics Card
and using the PowerDVD Decoding Software version 6

Looking to link the NTL Digital Feed into the card using the S-VHS cable
(its actually SCART at the NTL end, and S-VHS + Audio Jacks at the PC End)

Have got it giving me good quality audio and picture, with the exception that I cant get the picture in colour, all menus etc are being displayed in colour.

I have made sure that all the drivers are the very latest, swapped all cables, even tried swapping the video card and PVR card. I also tried swapping the Scart socket i was feeding from on the NTL box.

(I also looked to take the feed using the S composite, but get no signal detected in MCE)

I have hit that
'Run out of ideas stage'

Anyone got any suggestions on what to try?

Any comments most welcome at this point

Thanks
Kevin

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Do you get colour in WinTV2000?

[joshley]

Try loading up WinTV 2000 and try to get colour in that first. When I stream mine I only get b&w until I load up WinTV 2000 and close it again then streaming is in lovely colour! I think it's something to do with selecting the right format somewhere Hauppauge specific. Also, try swapping round which SCART socket you are using out of the back of your NTL box (providing there are two); I had some picture and sound issues until I swapped, I think one does something different for a VCR or something, I'm not really sure!
This is of course, if you haven't tried these thigns already!
josh