No Color on My Sony trinitron tv

Make sure the color setting in the menu is not the culprit. It does not affect the teletext. Try inputting something through the SCART, does it make any difference?

I tried everything possible including using the scart, the next thing would be to get inside the tv, im looking through some service manuel to familarize myself before I start touching anything

How do I recognize the chroma chip?

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The set is old, AND its a sony. Use it as a boat anchor.

Sorry, I missed the start of this thread.

If 'London' means: London UK, you probably have a PAL set. Color (or is it colour :-) on teletext and black and white pictures is usually very simple: There is a 4.43 MHz or 8.86 MHz crystal on the board, next to a trimmer. The tuning of that trimmer probably has gone bad. (The chroma chip is the chip closest to that crystal. But who cares :-)

Find the region for the trimmer that shows color. And leave the trimmer at the center of that region.

If you can't get color on any trimmer setting, replace the trimmer by a ceramic capacitor; 18 pf comes to mind :-)