my dvp642 doesnt do svideo anymore?

[jdzworld]

this philips dvd model seems great after to downgrade to 0531(hated macrov) but it seems i may have lost svideo capability. i get a black/white display of what im trying to watch when only the svideo is plugged in. i have to connect the yellow cord(of the red, white, yellow cable) to get a picture showing in color. i think my svideo was working fine b4 that.

[Krispy Kritter]

Have you tried changing the output type in the video menu?

[jdzworld]

i actually meant to say that the picture DOES come out BUT it is only in black/white. i have to plug in the yellow cable to get the color back in my picture. i have the setting on svideo and the other setting doesnt help me any.

[Krispy Kritter]

Sounds like a PAL/NTSC issue. Some DVD players have that issue when playing a PAL disc in a NTSC player, and vice versa. There is a setting in the menu for PAL/NTSC output.

[jdzworld]

unfortunately that didnt help. oh well.

[pants]

have you tried another svid cable? or even tapping / wiggling the current cable? it could one of the pins is loose or bad in the cable and the color info isn't coming through. this happened on an old player of mine.

[jdzworld]

thats a good idea. my ps2 svideo monster cable had stopped playing also though before i broke some of the pins putting it into my radioshack box.(that can connect like 4 devices for svideo) i dunno what happened but svideo is just not working anymore. ima definetely have to spend more time w/ it one day.

[jdzworld]

actually my svideo cable wires(prong) were damaged inside. i guess i was too rough when trying to insert it. its kinda hard to get back there to it. the color now works fine w/ svideo!!