[NOTODAYTIMETV]

Hi everyone, feel a bit silly for posting this problem but I have tried everything (including downloading the manual already).

I have a working SVP-350 projector and mainly used it for my Playstation and to watch DVD's (it's used in a dry basement).

All was well until I one day tried to hook up an old American laptop I had to it (Laptop was NTSC and loaded with over a 1,000 arcades roms / MAME emulator project I was starting on).

Well I guess I got to the correct menus and pressed something to make the screen go to the wrong screen format and now alas I am well and truly lost... (there is no clear menu to work from, just a no signal screen or a wrong format picture to view)

I have tried everything and thought I would try one of you expert type chaps...


If I play a DVD now, the picture is all distorted but you can make out that what the DVD is playing (stuck on the wrong region format...).



Help, I'm pretty sure this projector is still alive and kicking, just at the point where it's going to be thrown down the recycle shoot... help!

Tony (UK).

[Chris Frost]

Originally Posted by NOTODAYTIMETV

Laptop was NTSC

Are you sure it was sending out an American format video signal instead of the more common VGA signal (640x480 / 800x600 etc)?


A 350 is compatible with NTSC video signals. It's not happy with VGA signals. If you've somehow given it a VGA signal and then done some fiddling in the Memory Manager then it's possible that you've could have lost the settings for picture size and shape. If the projector is now trying to display a video image without the correct settings then that might explain the distorted image.