ColecoVision: No sound

[ColecoVision: No sound]

Figured it out! This is kind of odd, but it seems I have to turn on the TV to the channel at which the ColecoVision is set, change channel, and then change back to the ColecoVision's channel. When I first turn the console on I see muted colors and hear the TV static, but as soon as I change channels and change back, the colors are fine and the sound works fine. Odd. I completely stumbled upon this by accident, of course, but at least it's working.

[ColecoVision: No sound]

Hey everyone,

 

I'm new to the forum and have been looking through this section. While I've seen problems similar to my own, I haven't been able to find the exact problem. So if you read this and this exact question has already been asked, then by all means re-direct me to that thread because I may very well have missed it.

 

I got a used ColecoVision and it came with a long RCA cable and a really ancient-looking Coaxial switch with two coax inputs and an old output that looks like it goes to those antenna screws TVs used to have. I am hooking my ColecoVision up to a tube (CRT) TV that I bought in 2005, so it is fairly new and doesn't have those antenna screws. The TV does, of course, have a coax input. So I went to Radio Shack and bought a RCA female/Coax male converter and I then hooked the cable into the TV using that.

 

I am getting video just fine, although the colors look more muted than they do on the NES that I also have hooked up to the TV's coax input. But I am getting absolutely no sound. I'm not even getting the faint sound that other people are describing in their sound problem posts. It's just all TV static. I tried hooking up the RCA cable w/coax converter to both the TV's coax input directly and also tried going through the NES's RF adapter. Same deal: perfect picture/no sound. Is there something wrong I'm doing with the way I'm connecting the console to the TV, or does it sound like there's something wrong with the console itself that I might need to fix?