As you all know I'm abroad and bought a laptop to feed my addiction when on a roll. This laptop has a 512mb vid card and a TV-out port. I brought quite a few movies and series with me from home, but as you can imagine I prefer seeing them on a TV over a laptop.

The flat I'm currently staying in has a TV, so I decided to pick up a tv-out to scart cable and hooked them up. It works, I can fiddle with the settings on the laptop to make a optimal adjustment to the tv etc, except for one thing: there is no colour.

No matter what I try (different tv channel, newer GFX card drivers, fiddling around in the GFX card settings) I can't get it to show any colours on the TV.

Anyone have any experience with this? I read somewhere that maybe the cable is too long so the signal is too weak, but it's only 5 metres or something. Any help would be appreciated.

Is it the right video encoding? Europe is retarded... you all use PAL, but different countries have different specific frequency ranges and crap. I support equipment that does video signals and that's a regular problem. Make sure the video output PAL settings fit what the tv is expecting.

Other than that, I dunno, you covered all the pc side stuff.