Direct TV black and white only

[rr2254545]

Worked great for 8 years - took it off vacation and now picture is black and white only - DTV has said its HDMI cable or the TV is old - MH is a 2012 TV is Samsung

Any body else have this problem ?

[Lwiddis]

Did you ever met Dan Matthews, wa8yxm?

[wa8yxm]

westernrvparkowner wrote:
Just watch Andy Griffith Show reruns, problem solved. Do you have a DVD player with HDMI connection? If so, connect it in place of the Directv box. If that solves the issue, Directv box is the problem. If it doesn't, cable or TV is the problem.

More or less how I do it too Western 🙂 Though not that program

The Adventures of Superman (Yup just watched that)
Dragnet
Highway Patrol
And a host of others from the days before Color

And some Color jobs too.

[westernrvparkow]

Just watch Andy Griffith Show reruns, problem solved. Do you have a DVD player with HDMI connection? If so, connect it in place of the Directv box. If that solves the issue, Directv box is the problem. If it doesn't, cable or TV is the problem.

[bob213]

You might try unhooking the HDMI cable and turn the tv on and go to setup. If it displays in color it's not the tv.

[wa8yxm]

rr2254545 wrote:
Worked great for 8 years - took it off vacation and now picture is black and white only - DTV has said its HDMI cable or the TV is old - MH is a 2012 TV is Samsung

Any body else have this problem ?

Good chance that DTV is right.. let me do a few seconds of Research

A 19 pin connector and they use only 5 (Though 7 are connected)

I was not able to QUICKLY find the info I wanted but one type of Video they used to use was called S-Video,. that one I know well.
Croma and Luma were two different wires... And if HDMI works like that .. Well you drop the CROMA (Color) and you are left with B&W (Luma)

ON HDMI the wires are not labeled that way though. But one Audio Two Video and one ground.

[Bill_Satellite]

What receiver do you have and what kind of antenna is on the coach? If you are using HDMI to connect the receiver to the TV, does the TV have a 2nd HDMI input to try? A new HDMI cable? Can you connect via RCA or component (or another TV in the house) to firmly define if it's the TV, receiver or cabling?

[enblethen]

Loose connection on what ever cable you are using!