[mythtv-users] Reds gone from HDPVR recordings

[DryHeat122]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 9:09 PM DryHeat122 <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 6:11 PM Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> wrote:
> On 3/24/22 19:07, DryHeat122 wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there is a way to see if I'm getting a signal out of
> the red
> > channel on my cable box /without /connecting it to a monitor with
> composite
> > inputs (which I don't have)? Should I be able to measure a voltage that
> would be
> > absent if it were dead, for example?
>
> Can you swap the red cable and blue at both ends to see if the blue is now
> missing? That would isolate the cable.
>
> Larry
>

After trying this very smart suggestion I found out...it was the cable! I'm
flabbergasted. How can an undisturbed cable spontaneously fail?! But it
did. Everything fine now.

Thanks for all the come-backs everybody.

>
>
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