Critical Irish Update needed to solve black and white tv problem on G20!

Question

I recently had trouble with setting up tv on my Qosmio G20, I was pointed in the direction of a black and white problem that affects earlier models. The solution to the problem was to use the g20's drivers and run 2 reg files.
Having done that to no success i tried every irish combination possible, with still black and white, I then tried UK and got colour.
I mucked about with the registration files and found that in the file, there was no irish setting, So when a user puts ireland in as their location they will always get black and white.
Ireland uses the exact same settings for tv as the UK does, However if a person choses UK they will not get irish guides or irish channels to pick from (ireland isnt part of the uk)
i found the settings for the UK -
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\ttv200x\Parameters\44]
@="United Kingdom"
"FreqBoundary"=dword:000493e0
"LB_VideoStandard"=dword:20000080
"LB_AudioStandard"=dword:00020000
"LB_ShiftFreq"=dword:00000abe
"HB_VideoStandard"=dword:20000080
"HB_AudioStandard"=dword:00020000
"HB_ShiftFreq"=dword:00000abe
Figuring the 44, was the dial code for UK (that took a while to figure) i added a registry entry with exactly the same settings, but with ireland and 353 at the top.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\ttv200x\Parameters\353]
@="Ireland"
"FreqBoundary"=dword:000493e0
"LB_VideoStandard"=dword:20000080
"LB_AudioStandard"=dword:00020000
"LB_ShiftFreq"=dword:00000abe
"HB_VideoStandard"=dword:20000080
"HB_AudioStandard"=dword:00020000
"HB_ShiftFreq"=dword:00000abe
I now have colour tv under the irish settings in media centre, i also have sound now, where before i didnt. Hopefully the above code will be added to the registry file named ttv2_regdata_20050111.reg that comes as part of the http://support.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB5800V20000R01.htm driver fix for the problem..
thanks to jimi in the following post http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?forumID=42&threadID=11145 for pointing me in the right direction.
Hope it helps someone..
laters taters...

Answer 1

I can confirm the problem isnt to do with win dvd creator 2 for toshiba. My registry setting was at 0.
Its bascially a known problem that was fixed, however it wasnt fixed for irish people.
When windows wants to play tv it looks in the registry to find out what settings to use. There are no irish ones. Our signal is technically the same as the UK, so using UK settings fixes the problem, However the UK guide doesnt work for irish channels. For the tv to work in colour windows needs the 353 settings.
I think the guy on this thread was having the exact same problem that is fixed with the registry entry.
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2488&tstart=75
This problem will only affect a small amount of users, The fix that comes with the toshiba drivers needs the irish settings added, Then the problem will be solved by updating the drivers.
until then any irish people can fix their black and white tv signal by adding the above registry entrys.
for trouble shooting purposes here is a list of countries where the bug is fixed... If someone complains of black and white tv on the qosmio series, this list can be checked, and if the persons country is absent, it could be the problem. To fix the problem you need to find out their country call code (+353 is ireland, +44 is UK) You also need to know the settings to add, i did this by looking at the UK settings in the file ttv2_regdata_20050111.reg that comes in the "reg" folder that comes for the qosmio tv driver.
here is the list of countries that an update of driver will work for...
"United States"
"Japan"
"Australia"
"Newzealand"
"China"
"Korean"
"United Kingdom"
"German"
"Italia"
"Swiss"
"Netherlands"
"Belguim"
"Luxemburg"
"Spain"
"Portugal"
"Russia"
"Ukraine"
"Azerbaijahn"
"Kazakhstan"
"Saudi Arabia"
"UAE"
"Lebanon"
"Kuwait"
"Egypt"
"Bahrain"
"Qatar"
"Jordan"
"Oman"
"Norway"
"Sweden"
"Denmark"
"Finland"
"Turkey"
"Greece"
"Israel"
"Cyprus"
"Poland"
"Slovakia"
"Czech Republic"
"Hungary"
"South Africa"
"Senegal"
"Mali"
"Kenya"
"Tanzania"
"Romania"
"Slovania"
"Bulgaria"
"Estonia"
"Lithuania"
"Latvia"
"Malta"
"Yugoslavia(Selvia Monteneglo?)"
"Singapore"
"Hong Kong"
"Taiwan"
"Malaysia"
"Thailand"
"India"
"Philippine"
"Indonesia"
hope that helps.