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PS3 plays blu rays in black and white on a standard definition television?
I've moved my home cinema setup upstairs into my bedroom, which has an old Sharp SDTV running through AV MultiScart. I set my PS3 to output the audio to my amp so that I could benefit from Dolby TrueHD atleast, even if (so I thought) I had SD picture quality. However, my ps3 plays my blu rays in black and white. I've looked at forums and they are no help because there simply doesn't seem to be a real answer, and half the time they say to "plug in the component cables again", which seems ridiculous because component is a HD support cable, right? Why would people be using component on an SDTV?
Any help here? Don't tell my to buy a HDTV, because I: A, have no cash, and B: don't know whether to buy a 40" or a smaller 32" so I don't have to downscale for uni next year.
Oh, and downloaded 720p videos play perfectly fine. I assumed the playstation would just downscale after processing the video from the BR.
It's been fixed now. I just tried it again and they play in colour, so I assume it must have been fixed in the update (we only have internet upstairs).
To answer that guy's question though, I am using the multiscart to output video and HDMI to output audio. I just told the playstation to output audio through the HDMI and video through the MultiScart. The same applies to my 360, although I had to do the "snap open the AV Cable box" trick so that both could fit.
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- Brad/Diana BLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
If you are playing Blu Ray video through your SCART connection, then that is your problem. If you are playing them using the Component cables, make sure you have the green cables connected to the green inputs/outputs and blue to blue...Some of those cables are so dark that one cannot tell the blue and green from eachother so they interconnect them and you get weird tints. Since your TV is SD, then all the component cables do is upconvert the images of SD DVD to a near 720i picture.(Thats what people use Component cables for on an SD TV) Thats all they can do on an SD TV because in order to do a 720p your TV would have to be HD..... So.....If you are using the MultiScart connection, the converter does not know how to process the incoming HD signal so it does its best.
Here's what' else is wrong with your setup.....You said you were running the audio through your amp from the PS3 to get your True HD sound. Since that requires the use of a HDMI cable, Where is the video coming from? Most systems won allow you to simultaneously output a video signal. I am assuming you are either running an analog video (yellow) cable to your scart connection from your PS3. If you are not running an HDMI out of your PS3, but rather an optical cable or a coax digital ( doesn't matter which) then you are not really getting the True HD Digital as that is only possible with the HDMI cables.
Source(s): I Install HT systems and have never ran into your problem but then again, we never use SCART to connect anything. - ?Lv 45 years ago
The nice advantage that the PS3 has over any Blu-Ray player (apart from the games), is that Sony makes firmware upgrades to enhance your Blu-Ray experience. Just two weeks ago, Sony added the Picture in Picture functionality and the Blu-Ray profile 1.0 and profile 2.0 - this is functionality which no other Blu-Ray player on today's market has - and current Blu-Ray players will never have as they do not have the option to upgrade firmware like the PS3 has. To sum up, if BluRay capabilities change Like they have done this past month), Sony can modify the PS3 to match that. You cannot do that with a Blu-Ray player
