Hello,
I bought a second hand Avant 28" VHS (type 81/11). When I saw it at the seller, the picture was fine. Also, when I brought it home and switched on, picture appeared fine, althoug I did not have any real picture, cause we do not have any analogue signal anymore. So, I was fidling to get the DVB decoder to work with one of the SCARTs in Avant, with no much of luck.
Anyway, after about ten minutes, the red color disappeared. Also there is a light grey haze behind everything with about eight horizontal white lines, which are connected to each other with diagonal lines. The background of menus is not black, but grey.
When switching off, I see the curtains to close, but still there remains the grey background for a few moments.
I then put in a video casette and I can get the picture from there, still missing red and the picture is flickering, or pumping, of about 1 sec frequency.
I opened the back cover to see if something was visibly loosened in transportation, but did not see any obvious reason.
Has anyone experienced similar problem? What might be the reason and how costly to repair?
Also, should both SCARTs support normal RGB SCART? I did not get any life from there. But when the red disappeared, it was very hard to navigate in the menus, selection being in red.
Thanks,
Pekka