Sony SL2000 lost color

[Popester]

Thought I would see what anyone might say for a troubleshooting idea. I have an SL2000 with the mating TT2000. I only use to test sets. I turned the tape I use, Disneys 1970 Boatnics. Stephanie Powers looking pretty good back then. Anyway, I'm getting clear video signal and good sound, just no color. Wondering where I might start for troubleshooting.

[Popester]

Problem solved. So I discovered why the SL2000 wasn't putting out any color. Channel 3 fine tuning was way off on the Sony KV-1920 TV set and even though the AFT was set on it was too off of frequency to bring it in. I discovered this today. My Sony KV-1920 is our bedroom tv and recently I bought a DTV converter so we could watch tv on it. The DTV converter I had for channel 4 and the Betamax for channel 3. I finally got the recorder figured out so I could record off the air from the converter with RCA jacks feeding the video and audio inputs of the VCR and bypassing its tuner. I discovered today that the VCR had color on channel 2. So that's how I figured out it had to be the TV set channel 3 was way off its centered frequency. Brought everything back and now my Beta tapes are showing color again. I'm glad it was easy. Sony SL2000 with its TT2000 are very feature rich for their day. I'm glad I can still time shift a program. I'm old school technology and I don't do DVR or Tevo kind of stuff.

[MIPS]

It's been years since I did the mod, but I seem to recall I stole the composite and line level audio pins from the header to the tuner (or it might of been the outputs on the camera connector) and put a 3.5mm trrs jack on the back so that I was able to steal a cleaner video and audio signal out of the tape deck if the tuner was not available.