A friend of mine has a problem with his MX5500 : he attached a multimedia hard-drive via a Peritel, but the picture goes to black & white after a nanosecond in color... (The multimedia HD works perfectly well with another non B&O TV...)

I suggested him, by phone, to switch Peritels, to set the video format to PAL and NTSC on his HD, but it doesn't work. He has a DVD player on one of the two Peritel sockets and the welcome page appears in B&W too, though it switches to color after a few seconds...

Do you guys have any clue about this issue?

BTW, following the user manual, I asked him to try "TV" + "SHIFT" + "TEXT" to access the TV set-up menu, but it only activates Teletext...

Thanks for your input,

Philippe

Hi Philippe,

accessing the menu requires to wait some seconds after pressing TV until the display of the program name / channel disappears. Furthermore it's depending on the version of the remote control (BL1000 I assume): Newer versions have a MENU key that must be used, elder versions require the sequence SHIFT - TEXT.

The problem appears to me as if the device would output an S-Video signal which has color and luminance separated. If you can't select the output signal of the multimedia hard-drive to RGB you should try the S-Video input of the MX5500. If I remember correctly, you can select between SCART und S-Video by pressing SHIFT - 9 on the remote control.

Good luck!
 

Thanks very much!

I'll give it a go and get back to you then.

Philippe