Apex 660 trouble

[apex660 owner]

My Apex 660 used to play vcd's just fine; however, lately every VCD I play flips across the screen and is in black and white. I know it's not the VCD's because they work on my computer and on friends DVD players, plus all VCD's show the same exact flipping and black and white color. My apex plays regular DVD's just fine. Anything I can do?

[Baldrick]

please ONLY post in one forum

black and white problems is often because of PAL or NTSC setttings...try change to PAL or NTSC on your dvd.

[apex660 owner]

Sorry baldrick, that may be it, I was scanning through the menu and didn't see these options to change. Perhaps they are on the remote?

[zzyzzx]

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Sorry baldrick, that may be it, I was scanning through the menu and didn't see these options to change. Perhaps they are on the remote?
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Your computer doesn't care if it's NTSC or PAL VCD. Your DVD player does. It's (usually) not a setting on your VCR. It either plays it or it won't (or play it in black and white sometimes). Look at a .DAT files on the VCD and see what frame size and frames per second it was and post what you find and say where you live (so we know if you live in a NTSC or PAL country).

[apex660 owner]

Thanks for the help. I ahve played VCD's before so I know the player can play them. A guy I work with also has anapex (doesnt know the model though) player and he says there is a p/n button on the remote and if you hit that it will work. I'm assuming this button is to switch in between PAL/NTSC. I hope that 1) I have this button 2) It's just a matter of switching the setting. I live in New York. The guy I work with said it should be on NTSC is this correct?

[Greg12]

Set it to Multi

It will determine the type of disk and adjust apporperatly.

If you live in New York, why do you have PAL disks?

[alucard2050]

i have an apex and multi doesn't work for me. i have to switch it to ntsc.......

[Anonymous65]

On the Apex-660, the P/N button means:
PAL - every DVD is played back in PAL (even a NTSC disk)
NTSC - every disk is played in NTSC (even a PAL disk)
Multi - NTSC disk is played in NTSC, PAL disk is played in PAL.

[ilc]

The button might be labeled as "SYSTEM" on the remote, as opposed to "P/N".

Also, pushing SYSTEM or P/N on the remote is only a temporary solution. If you want the player to load with a certain setting every time you turn it on, you will need to go into the "GENERAL SETUP" menu and make the selection there.

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On 2001-11-30 19:22:25, skittelsen wrote:
On the Apex-660, the P/N button means:
PAL - every DVD is played back in PAL (even a NTSC disk)
NTSC - every disk is played in NTSC (even a PAL disk)
Multi - NTSC disk is played in NTSC, PAL disk is played in PAL.

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