NTSC DVD black and white on NTSC compatible TV

[nickbr4]

I have a SONY DAV-S400 region 2 DVD player, which as I understand outputs NTSC video as NTSC. It doesn't convert 'on the fly'. I also have a Grundig TV (about 3 years old).
My problem is that I have a number of DVD's from family events (weddings etc) which are in NTSC format and when played on my player are black and white. I have found a colour setting on the TV for NTSC 4,4 but even when I select that it is still black and white. The NTSC setting does do something however as PAL DVD's then look a little odd in colour.
Are there any other things I can do to sort this out. Is it a case of adjusting the colour on the TV. I had a try but nothing seemed to happen! I have tried the DVD's on my PC and they appear in glorious colour so it is not a DVD disk problem.

Any thanks would be excellent

Nick

[CaseyComb]

Yeah its called multi-region player with NTSC to PAL Conversion and vice versa. I've got a lite-on lvd-2002 that will play anything you can throw at it. And I got it for $99. Its the player...not the disc or the TV

[big_kel]

Yeah, well there are 2 version of NTSC: 3.58 and 4.43.

Normal televisions in Nth America/Canada/Japan use NTSC 3.58 but it seems that your DVD player only outputs in 4.43, hence NTSC DVDs being seen as black and white as both 3.58 and 4.43 are not compatible. It will also output as black and white when your tv is set to PAL

When you play a PAL DVD, the hue/saturation would have changed and the image would look kinda green with shades of purple. This happens when a PAL signal is sent to a TV that is set to only receive NTSC 4.43.

If you sent a PAL signal to a TV set for NTSC 3.58 the image will appear black and white.

[nickbr4]

That explains it.
I have tried the DVD player with NTSC disk on another TV (Samsung 2 year old) and the colour is spot on automatically, so the DVD player is OK. It must just be the fact that the TV only works with 4.43 NTSC and the output from the DVD player must be the other (3.58).
Thanks for the advice, at least I know the DVD player isn't knackered!

Nick[/quote]