Weird problem outputting a JVS S-VHS player to Sony KDL46V5100 flat-screen

[David K]

I’m positing this in the restoration section because, as I recall, all the experts on S-VHS players visit here.

My aunt is the last person on the planet who actually wants to play (as to opposed to convert to digital) her old VHS tapes. She just got a Sony KDL46V5100 LCD flat-screen TV and I connected up a JVC S3600 via the S-Video connection. Video quality was great but the video would play and then fade to black and then come back and then fade to black. I tried the same player and same tapes on another video output and it was fine, so it’s not the player or the tapes. Composite out connection on the same player works fine with the KDL46V5100. It appears to be some weird incompatibility on the KDL46V5100 S-video input with the S-VHS player. Anyone else out there hooking up S-VHS players to new flat-screen TVs experience anything like this?

[edDV]

I’m positing this in the restoration section because, as I recall, all the experts on S-VHS players visit here.

My aunt is the last person on the planet who actually wants to play (as to opposed to convert to digital) her old VHS tapes. She just got a Sony KDL46V5100 LCD flat-screen TV and I connected up a JVC S3600 via the S-Video connection. Video quality was great but the video would play and then fade to black and then come back and then fade to black. I tried the same player and same tapes on another video output and it was fine, so it’s not the player or the tapes. Composite out connection on the same player works fine with the KDL46V5100. It appears to be some weird incompatibility on the KDL46V5100 S-video input with the S-VHS player. Anyone else out there hooking up S-VHS players to new flat-screen TVs experience anything like this?

Does this happen only with commercial tapes? Seems like Macrovision. I've never seen this happen with a TV. I'd call Sony support.

[David K]

That's a good point about Macrovision.
All the tapes in question were commercial tapes of movies and may well have had Macrovision.
I need to re-hook up the S-Video input and try it with a tape I know does not have Macrovision.