Last night I connected our VCR to my computer with my analog multimedia PCI card, and the video came through black and white. Since our VCR is really old, chews up various tapes, and doesn’t record anymore, I thought it was the VCR’s fault. I borrowed our neighbours spare VCR, plugged that up and was extremely scared when I couldn’t remove the already in there VHS tape. After ten minutes of freaking out thinking I broke it, I discovered this was their ‘spare’ because it was broken.
I then borrowed their working VCR, and discover I still had the black and white problem. This means it is my computers fault. Not having used this PCI card for over a year and having installed a myriad of windows updates, and all that crap I thought I best update the drivers for the card. This means massive downloading, multiple reboots, yadda yadda yadda. Worth doing, since the software looks to be a lot nicer this year. Unfortunately, this did not fix my problem of black and white issues.
Eventually after poking around on the net for half an hour I discovered the connector plug I was using has some extra transistor or some crap like that put in it to make it black and white, and that there is actually two connectors that came with the card, and I seem to have lost the other one. I’m really hoping I did loose the other one, because then it means all I have to do is buy another one which I have, and tonight I shall test it out.
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