Hello all

Sorry, absolute newbie here who just purchased a SilverCrest KH6515/KH6516 with DivX capability so she could play her CD downloads. It was working fine, but twice now, when I switch it on, instead of the DVD Screen and SilverCrest logo, I'm getting wavy lines. If I insert a DVD, it will accept it, it will play it, I can hear the sound, but nowt on the screen except the wavy lines. I checked the manual for troubleshooting. It advises switching on and off. Well, I did try it and it worked the first time this happened last week, but it didn't work second time.

There was also a bit about pressing the "stop" button and then pressing the "Video Out" button on the remote control just in case I had seletected the wrong "PG/C(?) Scan" on the TV (I wish I had the manual here with me, but unfortunately no, I'm trying to retrieve from faulty memory.) Doing that got rid of the wavy lines, but was left with black, blank screen with some numbers and letters on top.

I'm feeling a bit guilty because I missed a bit in the setup of it and am wondering now if what's happening is a direct result. It reads something like


Before playback of a DVD:-

Connect DVD player to electrical socket (done)
Connect DVD player to television (done)
Set up OSD (on screen display menu) (oh dear, didn't see this bit and didn't do it)

On reading about the OSD it would appear to be all about setting language selection, screen ratios and other technical doo-dah. I wouldn't have thought this would have stopped normal operations but then again....the bugger is that to set this OSD menu, I need to get the DVD screen back!

Can anyone please let me know what's wrong and how to fix it? I'm heartbroken about this as I was really pleased to get a DivX enabled DVD player.