Yesterday my TV's only scart socket decided to stop working, leaving me with a standard aerial connector (it's a PAL colour TV, nothing special) and nothing else. Now this means the only way of connecting my XBox to the TV is through this aerial plug, and luckily I had an RF cable I'd got at christmas (a Joytech one). After finding it, I used the TV's autotuner to find the right signal, and it came up nicely... until a couple of seconds later, the sound tuned in too. Suddenly, every bright colour on screen creates a white flash that stretches right, and a very loud buzzing noise, making it impossible to actually hear the console behind it. I've tried the different channels (BG, I, K-something, not exactly sure what it means by channels, but they only seem to affect the sound, not the picture), with no effect.
This is incredibly annoying, as I've got Soul Calibur 2 arriving (hopefully) on Friday, and I'll only be able to play it on the living room telly, which my parents won't particularly like. The TV's only 9 months old (though the line has been discontinued), so it's still under warranty, but I have to find the receipt first, and with it being a 20" model, it's not going to be easy to get it back to Dixons where I bought it from, 'cos it's huge.
Normally I'd blame this on the TV not tuning in properly, or the lead itself. However, I had almost exactly the same problem with my Dreamcast, a loud buzzing noise when there was any white on the screen, a year ago on a different TV (which is about 10 years old). I got around that problem by getting a VGA box, but in this case it isn't so easy. Surely this is more than a coincidence? Are PAL TVs unable to properly receive RF signals from modern consoles, or is it just that the two I've got aren't of high enough quality?
And why hasn't Gameplay dispatched my Soul Calibur 2 yet?
This is incredibly annoying, as I've got Soul Calibur 2 arriving (hopefully) on Friday, and I'll only be able to play it on the living room telly, which my parents won't particularly like. The TV's only 9 months old (though the line has been discontinued), so it's still under warranty, but I have to find the receipt first, and with it being a 20" model, it's not going to be easy to get it back to Dixons where I bought it from, 'cos it's huge.
Normally I'd blame this on the TV not tuning in properly, or the lead itself. However, I had almost exactly the same problem with my Dreamcast, a loud buzzing noise when there was any white on the screen, a year ago on a different TV (which is about 10 years old). I got around that problem by getting a VGA box, but in this case it isn't so easy. Surely this is more than a coincidence? Are PAL TVs unable to properly receive RF signals from modern consoles, or is it just that the two I've got aren't of high enough quality?
And why hasn't Gameplay dispatched my Soul Calibur 2 yet?
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