Black and white picture problem from Sky

[skydragon786]

I'm wondering if someone can please help me, because this is starting to do my head in.

I have an ATI X1600 graphics card, but it has no place on it which would enable me to record video from Sky TV via the SCART connection on the Sky Digibox (No s-video port), so I bought a PCI TwinHan Digital and Analogue TV capture card. The card has four places to connect wires - One is for S-video, one is for analogue and one is for FM. I also bought an S-Video to Scart cable.

I connected the S-Video end to the TwinHan card, and the Scart end to one of the Scart bits at the back of the Digibox. However, this gives me a problem - The problem being that the picture comes out in Black and White on the PC. Anyone know how I can sort this problem out? My S-Video to Scart cable is a Gold-plated Profigold SCART to S-Video cable. The TwinHan card was this one:

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Any help would be appreciated. I have checked all over the internet, but none of those ideas work.

[Richard_G]

If you feed an S-Video input (4 pin mini-DIN) with a composite (yellow phono) signal you'll get a black and white picture (as S-Video separates the lumina and chroma signals, composite doesn't). Do you have a menu setting on your Sky box to tell it what to output from the scart? Most DVD players and Freeview boxes do, so I supect your Sky box will too. Scart can cater with composite video, S-Video and component video (separate red, green and blue). The unit will send it's output to whichever scart pins you have told it to send to, but only once you told it.