I have a 2001 XBox which I connected successfully to an RCA 60-inch 4K, UHD tv, but it displays in black and white. I manipulated all relevant settings on the tv and the XBox with no joy. Is there a solution to this dilemma or is the XBox just incompatible with such technology. I bought a 32-inch LCD tv which fixed the problem, but, of course, I want to play on the 60-inch monster. Am I SOL, or can I fix it?
How are you connecting it? I’ve had bad component color connections that resulted in black and white picture on “newer” TVs.
The composite connectors which come with the original X-Box. The red-white-yellow connectors. I’m confident I have the connectors in their appropriate jacks.
I definitely believe you, because composite wouldn’t even give you a black and white picture if you were plugged into the wrong jacks.
For a modern tv, you generally will need to go into your menu settings on the TV and find an option to change your input to “Composite” or “Video”, and how to do that depends on the TV and manufacturer.
You may need one of these:
I had to get one of those for a PS2 in order for it to display on my 4k TV. Like you, I was only getting black and white images. This adapter fixed the issue.
I concur with this. A lot of new TVs use a single connector for either the Y cable if you’re doing component connection, or the standalone composite connection. You should also check the list of inputs - for my LG, there are 2 different input selections for component & composite, even though they use the same physical connectors.
The OP sounds like s/he’s doing something 8 Bit Guy would do, except 8 Bit would be more likely to connect an Intellivision to his flat-screen.
Thanks for the reply. I tried every branch of every relevant menu tree on both the XBox and TV. I also changed “input” to composite. In composite mode, I get a signal but no color.
Ooh, this looks promising. Thank you.