Apple TV, Component displays in black and white, but only after boot-up

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I’m experiencing an odd issue with my Apple TV device running OSMC. I’m using component cables on a CRT. During boot-up, I see Tux sitting on the Apple TV in full color, after the verbose boot process, the OSMC splash screen appears blue. However, once the menu loads, the display turns black and white.

To troubleshoot, I modified the xorg.config file with the following code:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "RegistryDwords" "RMDisableRenderToSysmem=1"
    Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    Option         "UseDisplayDevice" "TV"
    Option         "TVOutFormat" "COMPONENT"
    Option         "TVStandard" "HD1080p"
    Option         "TVOverScan" "0.80"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
    Modes "1920x1080" "1280x720" "1024x768" "720x480" "800x600" "640x480"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

Unfortunately, there was no change in the display whether I used the original xorg configuration or the modified one.

I’m using a CRT display, so I attempted to set the “TVStandard” option to “NTSC-M”. However, this only resulted in a black screen. Its strange the display has full color during boot-up, but not once the menu loads.

Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Got it to work. For the CRT to display component in color, I needed to change the TVStandard.

Option         "TVStandard" "HD480i"

This fixed it.

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