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Old 07-04-2007, 12:18 AM
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Jacob,

if you have a video camera, you can try to troubleshoot the connections yourself - sacrifice one RCA cable that you can plug into a video camera and the other end you can try to see if the video signal is coming out of the TV tuner, if that signal is traveling up to your 2-port monitor IN, if it is coming out of the 2-port monitor switch and if it comes to the monitor itself. this way you might be able to pinpoint the culprit and take it from there.
Let me know if you need the pinouts from the TV module

Since both monitors did not work while connected to the car, and one of them worked when connected to another source, chances are that something does not agree somewhere. Normal video signal is pretty much standard, regardless of the SW versions.

Another minor thing - are your monitors PAL/NTSC/SECAM switchable? Are they switched to a correct standard? Are they autosensing or you have to manually switch the standard? Is the TV tuner switched to a correct standard? the tuner and the monitors have to be in the same standard... For a US spec PS2 you probably need everything in NTSC format.

I suspect that playing with the settings will resolve your problem - i had similar problem: when I bought the car, it had two aftermarket monitors in the headrests, no DVD player or other stuff. When I plugged a portable DVD into the IN, I got the blue screens... After two days of playing with the settings, somehow I managed to get a picture... It is working fine since...
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