When I connect my Panasonic GS220 to a television, I only get a black
and white picture. I'm using the s-video and audio cables supplied
with the camera and have connected as described in the manual via a
scart adapter. Since the manual is deficient in this (and other) areas,
it isn't clear which of the 3 connectors in the audio cable go where in
the scart adapter. So I have swapped them around, but to no avail.

It could be that the scart connector is missing something. It has the
following pins left to right:
Top row: 1,2,3,10
Bottom: 7,8,9

Can anyone advise a possible way forward here?
--
John Bornholt

"John Bornholt" wrote in message
...
When I connect my Panasonic GS220 to a television, I only get a black
and white picture. I'm using the s-video and audio cables supplied
with the camera and have connected as described in the manual via a
scart adapter. Since the manual is deficient in this (and other) areas,
it isn't clear which of the 3 connectors in the audio cable go where in
the scart adapter. So I have swapped them around, but to no avail.

It could be that the scart connector is missing something. It has the
following pins left to right:
Top row: 1,2,3,10
Bottom: 7,8,9

Can anyone advise a possible way forward here?
--

Maybe your television doesn't accept S-video (although even my cheap
widescreen does) try cycling through the inputs with the AV button on the
remote control and see if it displays S-video in the list.


John Bornholt

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:52:47 +0100, John Bornholt
wrote:

When I connect my Panasonic GS220 to a television, I only get a black
and white picture. I'm using the s-video and audio cables supplied
with the camera and have connected as described in the manual via a
scart adapter. Since the manual is deficient in this (and other) areas,
it isn't clear which of the 3 connectors in the audio cable go where in
the scart adapter. So I have swapped them around, but to no avail.

It could be that the scart connector is missing something. It has the
following pins left to right:
Top row: 1,2,3,10
Bottom: 7,8,9

Can anyone advise a possible way forward here?

I don't know anything about the Panasonic GS220 but an NTSC signal often
produces a black and white picture on a PAL TV.

Relevant???????


Stuart

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www.oldfart.tv - have your say about the state of UK Television

"John Bornholt" wrote in message
...
When I connect my Panasonic GS220 to a television, I only get a black
and white picture. I'm using the s-video and audio cables supplied
with the camera and have connected as described in the manual via a
scart adapter. Since the manual is deficient in this (and other) areas,
it isn't clear which of the 3 connectors in the audio cable go where in
the scart adapter. So I have swapped them around, but to no avail.


I believe the cable colour convention is
left audio - white
right audio - red
video - yellow.

I to tried using s-video cable along with the white & red audio, but only
got B&W picture.
Ditch the s-video cable and use the yellow video cable into the scart
adapter. Perfect colour picture now.
On the scart adapter there sould be 2 phono connections close to each other
and one spaced a bit further away, this one is the video plug.

I actually bought a scart adapter from maplins that is swicthable from input
to output, great if your camcorder has dv in, you can record your TV to your
camera then.

Bill.

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 10:43:35 +0100, Bill
wrote:

I believe the cable colour convention is
left audio - white
right audio - red

It's mnemonic, R = red = right. Except is some idiot has reversed the
wiring...

video - yellow.

Which I remember because 'w' is pronounced in German as a 'v', like
video g.

I actually bought a scart adapter from maplins that is swicthable from input
to output, great if your camcorder has dv in, you can record your TV to your
camera then.

I've bought one with 6 phono plugs, three input and three output, but I
can't find anywhere that sells those now. Maplins didn't have them last
time I was there (but the did have the 'y' splitters, with one Scart
plug for I/O and one each for input and output).

Chris C

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:41:51 +0100, Chris Croughton
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 10:43:35 +0100, Bill
wrote:

I believe the cable colour convention is
left audio - white
right audio - red

It's mnemonic, R = red = right. Except is some idiot has reversed the
wiring...

video - yellow.

Which I remember because 'w' is pronounced in German as a 'v', like
video g.

I actually bought a scart adapter from maplins that is swicthable from input
to output, great if your camcorder has dv in, you can record your TV to your
camera then.

I've bought one with 6 phono plugs, three input and three output, but I
can't find anywhere that sells those now. Maplins didn't have them last
time I was there (but the did have the 'y' splitters, with one Scart
plug for I/O and one each for input and output).

Chris C


http://www.keene.co.uk/cgi-bin/codesearch.pl?KLD1

scart to 6 phono £6.99 inc vat

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:52:47 +0100, John Bornholt
wrote:

When I connect my Panasonic GS220 to a television, I only get a black
and white picture. I'm using the s-video and audio cables supplied
with the camera and have connected as described in the manual via a
scart adapter. Since the manual is deficient in this (and other) areas,
it isn't clear which of the 3 connectors in the audio cable go where in
the scart adapter. So I have swapped them around, but to no avail.

It could be that the scart connector is missing something. It has the
following pins left to right:
Top row: 1,2,3,10
Bottom: 7,8,9

Can anyone advise a possible way forward here?

This is a common problem. The SCART socket on the TV lacks the
appropriate connections. Have you got a composite input on the tv (a
phono jack, alongside two more which receive stereo audio?) You can
get a s-video to 3 phono lead. Or you can get a SCART plug with 3
phono sockets on the back. Or you can make up a special SCART
..s-video lead.

A Google search for "s video scart" would have discovered
http://www.svideo.com/svideoscart.html
(and many others)

In message , Laurence Payne
writes
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:52:47 +0100, John Bornholt
wrote:

When I connect my Panasonic GS220 to a television, I only get a black
and white picture. I'm using the s-video and audio cables supplied
with the camera and have connected as described in the manual via a
scart adapter. Since the manual is deficient in this (and other) areas,
it isn't clear which of the 3 connectors in the audio cable go where in
the scart adapter. So I have swapped them around, but to no avail.

It could be that the scart connector is missing something. It has the
following pins left to right:
Top row: 1,2,3,10
Bottom: 7,8,9

Can anyone advise a possible way forward here?

This is a common problem. The SCART socket on the TV lacks the
appropriate connections. Have you got a composite input on the tv (a
phono jack, alongside two more which receive stereo audio?) You can
get a s-video to 3 phono lead. Or you can get a SCART plug with 3
phono sockets on the back. Or you can make up a special SCART
.s-video lead.

A Google search for "s video scart" would have discovered
http://www.svideo.com/svideoscart.html
(and many others)

This agrees with what I have found after trying everyone's helpful
suggestions. The scart connector or socket is deficient. I found an
s-video input behind a panel on the other side of the TV. Using this
and the audio inputs gave full colour and sound.

Thanks for all the suggestions.
--
John Bornholt