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Originally Posted by miniman82

It's more like a weak signal. I had my RCA jack coming from the LD player going to the 1st vid amp's grid, then switched it to the 2nd and it was worse (lost color).

Usually video amplitudes in a TV set are significantly higher than the 2Vp-p unterminated you'd get from the player. Something like 7Vp-p, so it looking like a weak signal would make sense. So you may not be in that bad of shape.