Toshiba Colorstream with ATV?

Toshiba's blurb about this:

ColorStream™ component video
This is the best type of signal delivery currently availableA ColorStream™ component signal bypasses your TV's tuner, comb filter, and NTSC decoder. It is delivered to your TV via three cables and keeps all of the picture elements separate, which increases colour resolution. This type of connection provides you with a very clean picture, eliminating noise and crosstalk between colours.

ColorStream™ is also the ultimate way to experience DVD. And, it ensures that your TV will be ready for the future of digital TV.

If you want to ensure that you're ready for the digital future, look for a TV with ColorStream™ inputs.

There are several types of component video signal type.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_video

If your TV set does not support the one AppleTV outputs you won't see anything - any settings you can change for the input on the TV set?

Ac

I hope you don't have Colorstream Pro inputs as apparently these are proprietary Toshiba inputs which only work with a specific Toshiba DVD player:

http://www.smr-archive.com/forum_6/messages/1347.shtml

From second reply to this:

"Toshiba's component video inputs will accept other component video inputs. The difference, however, is that to use the Colorstream PRO inputs, if your set has them, you must use the Colorstream PRO outputs from a Toshiba DVD; specifically, the 7108. Not all Toshiba sets have these inputs, only 3 models do, I believe. You should check the Toshiba website to be certain. Your source may be confused between these two types of inputs.

In the former case, you see the typical component video resolution. In the latter case, you take advantage of a Toshiba-proprietary system that functions effectively like a line doubler and produces the essential equivalent of a 480P progressively scanned image, which should be much better."

AC

Winston Churchill wrote:
Is your tv set to use the correct input, have you tried cycling the tv output modes.

Those would be my next suggestions, in more recent software the AppleTv also seems to have different option in the Settings>Video>Hdmi bit - I only ever saw 2 (high and low) before but there are a couple more now.

AC

the text for inputs comes from your TV not the appleTV and is composited on TOP of the picture from the source. it should be there regardless of if the source is showing anything or not... i'll ask this just to be sure... is your TV on?

Swagg wrote:
Well I can't cycle through the output settings if I can't see anything.

1 Press and hold both 'menu' and ' +' on the Apple Remote for about 6 seconds.
2 Press '+' or '-' on the Apple Remote to cycle through the display resolutions.
3 When Apple TV reaches an acceptable display resolution and “If you can see the Apple
logo, select OK” appears on your TV screen, press ’ .

Is your tv set to use the correct input, have you tried cycling the tv output modes.

So are you saying you have a picture but it's not very good, initially you said you had no picture, his is quite a difference, could you confirm what you have please.