PAL NTSC Switching of Component Output

Hi,
I just purchased a ATV in the US an brought it back to Europe where I am hocking it up to an older TV using the component otput. The cabeling is correct and I am not using a composite entry nore cable.
The problem however is that the picture only apears in Black and White. I assume this is because the ATV is set to NTSC on its component output. Does anyone know how to switch the component output to PAL 50HZ ?
Regards

Your symptoms are consistent with plugging into an RGB connector (as you have pointed out).
I'm a little confused though as to exactly what you tried. What I meant when I said swap the cables over was to use (for example) the green cable in place of the blue, ie plug it into the blue connectors at both ends rather than just one.
On a component system the green is used for brightness (luma), the blue for the difference between luma and blue and red the difference between luma and red. On an RGB system the three connectors are used for each colour and the signal to each is a similar signal to the luma in component. This explains why an RGB system understands the signal over the green cable and not the others and results in a green picture.
If you plug the green cable into the red connector on an RGB system (keeping it plugged into the green at the other end) what you might get is a red picture, but this isn't certain since on a 3 connection RGB system (there are 4 and 5 connection systems) the green cable also carries the sync signal and you might get a rolling red picture or no picture at all.
With this in mind you should be able to detrmine if you have A) RGB connectors on your TV or B) damaged red and blue cables or C) a defective tv.
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