Help with cablesand NTSC signals.

[uNderdog_101]

My DVD-player (Sony DVP-PQ1) plays all pal movies fine, but it leaves something to be desired with NTSC.
WhenI play an NTSC encoded movie the image is black and white and I was hoping to fix this by purchasing an s-video to scart cable like this.


Will it help? Or do I have to enable RGB in my player? How do you do that? My manual (if you can call the folder piece of paper that) is frightfully inadequate. I am in Sweden.

[Donny661]

It sounds like you may be trying to play a disc with a region other than what you're in from the little i've looked up on google in a few minutes. Try using a region free hack from the database at this site; there seems to be a few of them. If that in fact is the problem, buying a different cable won't solve the problem. If it is something else, try playing with the video settings on the DVD player. I have an Apex that only outputed black and white through s-video unless you changed a simple setting in the menu.

Here is a link to the hacks

[uNderdog_101]

The problem isn't simply about regions, it's about ntsc signal peing outputted so my tv can understand them properly.

[Wolfmancatsup]

Hi - it's always possible that your TV won't accept NTSC correctly. Have you got any NTSC vhs tapes you can play back on a video recorder through your tv to see if that works?
I live in the UK, and a friend had a similar problem - his tv would only show NTSC stuff in monochrome. In the end he replaced his dvd player with one that converted NTSC internally to a hybrid version of PAL called PAL60, which his tv then showed correctly in colour.
I'm possibly wrong, but I wouldn't have thought you could resolve this by playing around with cables really.
Good luck and let us know if you get anywhere.

Regards,

Wc

[jman98]

Your problem is definitely a NTSC-PAL mismatch and not a region coding issue. Try seeing if you can set your DVD player to force PAL video output. It could be that your player defaults to "auto", which means that it outputs the same video signal as the input source. Yes, it sounds like your TV can't correctly display NTSC video.
This is not a cabling issue. It is a TV issue.

[SLK001]

Your TV isn't NTSC "friendly". This is apparent with the lack of colors (color burst is a different frequency, thus won't phase-lock).

[The_Doman]

You should get a fully wired RGB-Scart lead and enable the RGB option on your DVD player.
(probably it's already enabled)

Most decent European TV's can work with a SCART-RGB signal.
(Often only the first SCART socket is RGB enabled)
It will give you the best picture and you don't have to worry about a PAL/NTSC signal.

When not using the RGB signal the output of the DVD-Player will be probably PAL60 when playing a NTSC source.