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Posted on Apr 16, 2009

Xbox black and white

Xbox was bought and shipped from europe and only displays in black and white not color all games... Any ideas how to fix the problem

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    try plugging the 360 into a different scart input. if still not right try using phono inputs or hdmi if its a new tv. some tv's do not support 60hz fully, and the games which are black and white are probably foriegn? would need clarification though



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If you're in the US, then your problem is you're using a PAL system with NTSC games. Also, it may be that the system is outputting in PAL format to an NTSC TV, but I'm actually not sure if TV's are region formatted as well.

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