Picture Blacks Out

[Jeff Westrop]

I moved the TIVO to another room and when I powered it up the picture was very red. I went into the menus and the picture blacked out. Going back to Live gave me a picture back that was fine but if I went into the menus or tried to play a recording the picture went black in a few seconds. Now it is black all of the time. The sound is fine.

Powering down for a few hours and powering up the picture is offset (bottom in the middle of the screen and the top at the bottom). Then it went black and stayed black.

The Aerial output is fine so it is the SCART and I have tried changing the lead - that is not the problem.

Any suggestions about what the problem is likely to be and what I can do about it

thanks

Jeff

[Automan]

Any chance you got the scart cables on tivo mixed up / swapped around?

Automan.

[Jeff Westrop]

No, the SCART is connected correctly and the sound is OK just no picture.

[kmtv2]

I had a similar problem when I was watching last weekends Grand Prix. Every now and then, the live TV picture would go pale. When I changed Sky channels, it would come back OK. As the race went on, the live TV picture got progressively worst, until red streaks appeared at the edges of images, and then red went away altoether, and the "red" Ferraris appeared black. Then the picture would come back perfectly. Rewinding to where the picture had first appeared bad, it was now OK - hence my Sky box was OK.

Later that evening I watched a DVD all the way through without a problem. The next morning, the TV would flick between a perfect picture, and a blus screen.

I'd changed the Tivo PSU a few weeks ago, so I put the original back in - no change. Then, I went to swap around Scart cables going into the TV. At this point my wife came into the room, and before I'd got to the Scart cables, I'd touched the top of the TV, and my wife said the picture has gone. Slightly rocking the TV caused the picture to go away and then come back. The problem was traced to a duff Scart cable - this has now been binned and all is well.

I know you've checked you Scart cables, but I;d double check!