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Post by MarkW on Jan 23, 2005 16:56:07 GMT -5
My DTV is acting strangely. Everything was working fine for the first 20 minutes or so after taking it out of the box, but then the thing crashed and reset itself. After that I'd lost colour, and now everything is in black & white.
I don't think it's a PAL/NTSC compatibility issue (I'm in the UK); as I say, it was working fine to start with, and I've tried running it on two different TVs, both of which I know to be capable of displaying an NTSC signal.
Does anyone have any ideas?
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Post by SteveV4V on Jan 26, 2005 21:13:11 GMT -5
I have the same problem... first 20 minutes I had it... everything was fine. Now it will only work in black and white. I am in the USA.
Just took the darn thing out of the box.
WTF?
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Slarti
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Post by Slarti on Jan 26, 2005 21:53:56 GMT -5
Have you tried changing the batteries?
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Post by MarkW on Jan 27, 2005 4:33:48 GMT -5
Have you tried changing the batteries? I'll try it, but I can't see it being the batteries to be honest. The ones I've used are virtually brand new, and the DTV is working perfectly happily right now, it's just in black & white.
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Post by Dark Vulcan on Jan 27, 2005 16:58:59 GMT -5
It does sound like a battery issue. My C64DTV has not done that BUT one of my Namco joysticks has and it was the batteries. --=Dark Vulcan=--
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Post by MarkW on Jan 29, 2005 6:31:15 GMT -5
Nope, definitely not the batteries... just tried it with a set of NiMHs straight out of the charger, and it's still in black & white.
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Post by metalfoot on Feb 11, 2005 19:02:18 GMT -5
It says in the instruction booklet NOT to use rechargeable batteries. My guess is that the stick needs closer to 6V for its proper functions and with the rechargeables you're only giving it about 5V (1.25V NiMH batteries vs 1.5V Alkaline).
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Post by MarkW on Mar 14, 2005 5:08:55 GMT -5
Well, I finally got round to buying some new batteries.. Ever Ready alkalines, new from the shop, straight out of the packet, into the DTV... turned it on... And we have colour! For about 20 seconds, then it went back to black & white again
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Post by Leif Bloomquist on Mar 14, 2005 12:58:54 GMT -5
Do you need to do anything to the TVs to 'force' them into NTSC mode? I have a PAL/NTSC TV here, but I have to manually select whether it shows PAL or NTSC.
You could also try a separate plug-in power supply @ 6V in place of the batteries. Not as convenient, but it would at least keep a constant voltage.
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Post by MarkW on Mar 14, 2005 14:37:36 GMT -5
Nope, the TV auto-selects PAL & NTSC. It has no trouble displaying an NTSC picture at all.
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Post by schism on Mar 16, 2005 21:17:48 GMT -5
Don't know if this helps or not but what kind of other cables does the dtv video lines cross? My kids started fussing about mine going fuzzy and I had just put batteries in it and I happened to move a cable away from a mouse ( the game tv and a "junk computer" share a desk) and found that when the cable got close to the mouse cable the picture fuzzed out. Maybe bad shielding on the video line of the dtv?
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Post by nanoflite on Apr 29, 2005 20:40:40 GMT -5
Jost got mine today ... out of the box and plugged into a 1084 monitor. Got everything B&W. Tried it on the TV set also B&W. I'm going to return it tomorro and ask for another one ... I tried with recarchable batteries first, then I tried my lab power supply at 6V .... still B&W ;-(
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