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He's talking about his TV settings. No idea why he's looking in the hdmi settings while his wii is connected via 1980s style rca component plugs mind you. I do tend to think after almost every sensible problem I could think of with the wii or the cable has been ruled out, the lesson is don't buy a shitty Alba TV from Argos. |
Why is my Wii is in black and white? • Page 3
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mal 29,326 posts
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DFawkes 32,785 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAh, I see. That makes more sense than what I thought .gif)
I had an HDMI cable, but it was third-party one. I vaguely recall issues with it causing a black and white image when the video settings were wrong, but that was because it was a third-party cable. Switching it to 480p fixed that, but as I say it was a third-party cable so it's very unlikely to be the solution.
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Basically there are only 3 places the problem can be: your Wii, your video cable, or your telly. You've just got to eliminate the possibilities.
The next step, obviously, is to try it on someone else's telly.
If it's colour on someone else's telly then you'll know your Wii and video cable are OK, so it must be your telly that needs a slap.
If it's still black & white on someone else's telly, then at least you'll have eliminated your telly as a suspect. You'll then need to try a different video cable, and the result of that little experiment will discover the culprit. -
mrpon 37,366 posts
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Registered 15 years agoOr his eyes. -
Blizz 16 posts
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Registered 4 years agoDFawkes wrote:
Oops I probably should have made it clearer.
Why is it an HDMI source? It has been a while, but I didn't think HDMI was officially supported on Wii, was it? So there shouldn't even be any HDMI source options.
I went on HDMI because that's the source I watch actual television on, and there's TV options for video output. That probably would have nothing to do with my Wii, but the thing is it tells me which options aren't supported on the TV system as a whole. If it can't be supported while watching tv, it probably won't be supported for the Wii either. -
Blizz 16 posts
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Registered 4 years agoghostgate2001 wrote:
I'm gonna take it back to the store today so they can test it on a different TV
Basically there are only 3 places the problem can be: your Wii, your video cable, or your telly. You've just got to eliminate the possibilities.
The next step, obviously, is to try it on someone else's telly.
If it's colour on someone else's telly then you'll know your Wii and video cable are OK, so it must be your telly that needs a slap.
If it's still black & white on someone else's telly, then at least you'll have eliminated your telly as a suspect. You'll then need to try a different video cable, and the result of that little experiment will discover the culprit. -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoHow about you take a picture of how you connected this thing to your tv with your phone and upload it to imgur so we can see.
I really don't think there's a problem with the wii, there's no way the cable can be broken (if it's composite you'd have no picture at all), and pretty much all tv's from the last 20 years can display a composite picture.
While you're at it give us the exact model of the tv. -
That earlier comment, saying that only AV2 produces any kind of picture on this telly - and what picture it does produce is black & white and grainy - makes me wonder.
Similar to what someone else said, that comment reminded me of the time I hooked up my SNES to a CRT TV and got a black & white and grainy picture. Turned out that the AV2 input on that telly cycled through a few modes if you dabbed one of the handset buttons, and I had it on S-Video mode.
Like Fake_Blood said, some photos showing how you've hooked this up will help. Are you using one of those AV (yellow/red/white) to Scart converters? Or does the TV have 3 phono-style inputs for composite video? If it has 5 of those phono-style inputs (Red/Green/Blue/Red/White) then that might explain a few things...
This is all getting a bit phAge now, isn't it?
Oh well, it is nearly the tenth anniversary... -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoYep, it's probably set to s-video.
Well nothing left to do but wait till he's back from the shop where his wii magically displays colours. -
Rodpad 2,997 posts
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Registered 11 years agoAh of course, s-video. I forgot that some setups will give you a monochrome picture. -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoBut if he's using the standard comes-with yellow red and white phono/rca leads, that's not s-video. S-video is a commonly black 4-pin mini-DIN plug along with the same red and white leads, and is relatively fiddly to plug in, and was a paid extra which nobody in their right mind should have bought over a RGB SCART lead or composite leads back in the day. -
But S-Video is a lot better than composite, so if for whatever reason you didn't have an available RGB plug, that was the next best thing.
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Oh well, it is nearly the tenth anniversary... 
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