[Coco] Coco 1 displaying in B&W

[S Klammer]

I agree with Rogelio.  If you have the "video cable" (as you called it)
from your Genesis, I *think* you'll have better success as it is a better
design automatic RF switch.

Shain
On Apr 16, 2015 4:28 PM, "Rogelio Perea" <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu Apr 16 2015, Vincent Tran wrote:
>
> Hi all -- I have a Coco 1 that's displaying video in black & white.  The
> > video signal is also very grainy. I don't have the original Coco1 video
> > cable so I'm using an old NES video cable.  It works fine on the NES and
> > Sega Genesis, but I get b&w on the Coco1.  Is it just not compatible?
> >
>
> Are you using the Nintendo RF adapter cable that has a grey square box
> attached to it?
>
> If so that is not going to work good with the CoCo. That adapter has an
> elishctronic switch that passes the RF from the antenna/cable whes the NES
> is unpowered, once the NES is on the switch automatically reroutes the NES
> output to the TV.
>
> You need a straight cable with an RCA plug on one end and an F male
> connector on the other; you could get by with an RCA to RCA cable and use
> an RCA to F adapter on the end that will connect to the TV antenna/cable
> input.
>
> The adapter mentioned you can get at Radioshack ->
>
> http://www.radioshack.com/radioshack-phono-rca-female-to-f-male-adapter/2780475.html
>
>
> -- RP
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