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Murky RGB
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Posted by: Adlopa

After cleaning behind the TV today, I decided to rejig my connections to get RGB from the Tivo. I plugged the Tivo into the SCART on the DVD player (which has RGB pass-through) and left the DVD plugged into the TV's RGB SCART (a Philips 32in WS). With the Tivo then set to output RGB (ITVD output and Tivo input both set to RGB too, btw), the resulting picture was appalling -- far too dark to be of any use and certainly not what I've come to expect from RGB.
Cranking up the brightness only made matters worse and plugging the Tivo straight into the TV's RGB SCART (ie without DVD pass-through) made no difference either. RGB ITVD straight to TV, however, was fine, as were the Tivo's menus (and RGB from the DVD is fine too). Flipping Tivo back to PAL output restored everything to normal.
RGB problems have been covered elsewhere here but seem to be largely blamed on early software (I'm on 2.5.5) and dud SCART leads (I use fully-shielded), so this seems to be a Tivo thing. Anyone else got a similar problem or am I missing something obvious?

Posted by: GarySargent

Have you tried a different SCART lead?

Posted by: Adlopa

Yup, of varying quality. No difference.

Posted by: GarySargent

So what exactly is dark? Is it recorded programmes? Is Live TV dark? But the menus are bright?

Sounds like a duff SCART between ITV Digital and TiVo box.

Are you using AV1 on your TV?

Also make sure the SCART's you are using are fully wired. You need to first check that all 21 pins are present on the connector, then carefully unscrew the connector, open it up and check wires connect to each pin.

Posted by: TwiceNightly

I had this the other night too.

An example was the Sky One logo, which looked so dull it was almost Brown and the whole picture was very dull.

I know it may seem very obvious, but my problem was that the Sky>Tivo scart lead had come out slightly at the Tivo end. I pushed it back in and it fixed it. (This had happened after I moved the TV a bit:rolleyes: )

Posted by: Adlopa

Grr. Traced (eventually) to a duff SCART lead. Not sure *how* (all the pins are wired at both ends) but replacing it solved the problem. I missed it in my earlier re-cabling efforts (it's like a 1950's switchboard back there...). Thanks guys.

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