Playback on an external monitor

Hi all,
Trying to help a friend out he has final Cut Express HD and wants to view his work on an external monitor but I cant get it to work.
Setup:
Mac mini
FCEHD firewire to sony DCR-TRV353E, rca to Tv.
I have the camera in vcr mode, have gone to View>Video Out>Apple FireWire PAL. Easy setup is set to dv-pal.
Have restarted fcp and refresh A/V Devices, tried the QuickTime solution (re-install).
The one thing I did not try was to trash preferences, will try when I go back tonight.
Also when going through all the posts, I see mentioned View>External Video>All frames. I'm use to working with FCP 5 and I know you have this option in that version but don't remember seeing it when I was looking at fcehd last night. Does this option exists for express?
Any help would be fantastic.

Play your sequence and see if it appears in the
camera's viewscreen. I've heard that some PAL cameras
do not support FireWire pass through, because of some
silly VAT regulation or other. Make sure your camera
supports both DV in as well as out. I can't find any
information on the web for a camera with that model
number.
Can't see the vision in the viewfinder, the video camera does have I/O Firewire, and support pass through. I also had my camera there and it didn't work either, needless to say I know mine does work!
Thanks for you help so far.

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