Component video woes - Help please

[Azier the Swordsman]

Okay, I just got a new Advent 20" TV with component video inputs in the back, and I'm having some difficulty. First: the DVD. The component video is hooked up properly, however, I'm only getting black and white. Following technical support, I tried reversing the cables to see if it would have any effect (it didn't). Then the guy said that I possibly have a bad cable. Cables for the PS2 work great... except the graphics seem are filled with 'line noise'. (The graphics seem to have 'lines' in them that move. This is NOT like when a bunch of lines run across the whole tv.) Any technical advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Link Antilles]

It's probably the copy protection junk on the DVD player. Well, that's what happened to me. I have an Apex DVD player (the hacker's DVD player) and I try the component cables on three of the TVs in my house. Two of them messed up. The first would fade from light to dark. The second was only Black and White. I checked the manual; it said it had something to do with a copy protection hardware thing. To fix this problem I bought an RF adapter for the DVD player, which lets it hook in through the antenna/cable screw-in, in the back of the TV. I hope that help some. Funny, for some reason my third TV worked fine with the component hook in, I guess it just depends. See if the manual for your DVD player says anything about this. BTW, what kind of DVD player is it?

[Azier the Swordsman]

Daewoo region free player. I have a modulator, but it doesn't have component video input slots.

[madphilb]

Daewoo region free player. I have a modulator, but it doesn't have component video input slots.

When you say component, you're talking the 3-wire RGB connector (and the 2 sound channels), correct?

There shouldn't be any copy-protection system in a TV itself (unless it has video out or a built-in VHS tape recorder)... at least it would be kinda silly to add the extra hardware to mess with video signals that way. (VHS players will do that sometime).

I don't know if there are differences in the signals by country or anything (I believe there is such a thing with other devices that way).... maybe someone with more intimate knowledge of this sort of thing could verify.... but if that's the case, are both units "speaking the same language" so to speak?

Finally (or maybe this should be first), are you sure it's not the unit itself? Could it be broken? If there is somewhere else you can plug it in, that might give you an idea.

Worse comes to worse you might have to drop down to S-Video, it's not quite as good, but if it's the only choice... eh?

[Azier the Swordsman]

My S-video cable works fine... but the picture doesn't look that great... especially Tenchi Universe and Sonic X (Japanese DVD's). My dad is taking the cables to Best Buy today to get them tested... I may have to buy some new cables.