PAL CD32 is B&W on NTSC composite monitor?

[orb85750]

Please educate me here:  Why is my PAL CD32 producing a B&W picture on the composite connection of my 1084 monitor (NTSC)?  It doesn't matter whether I boot the CD32 in PAL mode or NTSC mode.  (This 1084 monitor has been tested successfully for color, so it's not the monitor.)

P.S. Any alternate methods for getting a color picture?

[orb85750]

I have a native NTSC 1084S and a native PAL A600. Over composite, the A600 display is black and white, but over RGB it's full color. Could be a nuance of this particular era of 1084Ses - mine's one of the later ones, a 1084S-D2, I think.

Yes, I'm also using the 1084S-D2.  I should have some other Commodore monitor(s) in storage.  I'll have to try those to see if I can get color. Thanks for the info!

[orb85750]

orb why arent you using the rgb port? waaayyy better than crap composite.

From a CD32 -- with some kind of mod?

[orb85750]

According to the Commodore monitors page, there's not a single 120V Commodore monitor ever made to support a PAL composite signal.

http://gona.mactar.hu/Commodore/monitor/Commodore_monitors_by_model_number.html

If anyone in the US/Canada has experience getting color from a PAL CD32, please let me know!