I have received an Akira 5.5" black & white cctv camera system as a gift. I have connected the cables to the monitor and cameras. I have sound but no vision. Please help me how to connect the cables.

SOURCE: install the camera to mine laptop

Enter Canon web site and look for your camera drivers to be used with the VISTA OS (I hope they already have it. Download the drivers to your laptop. Good Luck !

SOURCE: black and white picture

connect to a different video source and see if you still get blk and wht only if you still does could be a prob with your I R camera

SOURCE: sharp television and panasonic cinema system with hdmi connection

Ok, here's the deal. You can have sound being putout from hdmi coming from one of those sharp units, but it just depends on how you are connected. If you are using a digital audio output, from the tv, it wont push out the sound the way that it should. You will have to downgrade to using audio composite cables to connect to your external speaker system from the audio ouputs, not the digital audio outputs. Its not designed to push out sound from an hdmi cable. The BEST way to have this setup is to run your sound directly from the cinema to the external audio source(leaving the hdmi cable in the tv).

SOURCE: Loss of picture through HDMI output

Changed cable.

SOURCE: need pin out info for aqua vu 4 pin connector

I figured it out:

Here goes: There are 4 wires inside the Aqua Vu cable that runs to the underwater part of the cam.

Red = Hot or 12 volt power from battery postive (red) terminal

Black = Ground - ground to battery negative terminal

White= Video input (or center of video coax)

Green= Infrared lighting control, if you ground the green wire against the black/ground, you will see

that it switches ON the infrared or "Christmas" lights. Simply put a switch on the green wire after you ground it, so you can switch your IR's on and off.