DVD recorder - no colour

[shivz]

1. Device: Pioneer DVR-220.
2. Playback of previously recorded DVDs is perfect (including colour).
3. Unexplicably, from one moment to the other stopped recording in colour.

Is there any correction procedure applicable at home?

[Baldrick]

Have you changed any ntsc/pal settings?

And I'm moving you to our dvd recorder section.

[shivz]

I understand that those are TV settings. No change was made.
Otherwise, my TV settings are as follows:
AV1 - picture seen on TV screen through the DVD recorder (now in black and white only, but previously recorded DVDs seen in full colour);
AV2 - picture seen on TV screen directly vrom the Cable Box (perfect).

[hech54]

So you are saying that the AV1 TV input is as follows:
cable TV line - DVR-220 - to television?

[shivz]

Yes
(whereas AV2 is cable TV line directly to TV).

[hech54]

My old TV suffers from a weak circuit board connection at the two SCART inputs. The weight of the cable takes it's toll over time and eventually I get greatly diminished sound and need to re-seat the scart cable to the TV.
It could be a bad cable....whether you are using SCART or not.
Or somehow your recorder's output has been switched between PAL and NTSC.
Or your television has individual setting for each line-in and somehow the AV1 input setting was switched.
A perfect black and white picture DOES describe a PAL/NTSC problem 90 % of the time.

[shivz]

TV 'specifications' section says
"Colour system
Pal, SECAM
NTSC 3.58, 4.43 (only video in)"

In recorder's "Initial Setup", Video In/Out, I tried all possible variations. Also used other scarts, but still black&white.

Query: does the fact that playback of DVDs recorded prior to this failure is perfect, mean anything in particular?

[hech54]

Query: does the fact that playback of DVDs recorded prior to this failure is perfect, mean anything in particular?

Unexplicably, from one moment to the other stopped recording in colour.

....and you are still recording regular television programming?....not from a different source/device?

[transporterfan]

...The weight of the cable takes it's toll over time and eventually I get greatly diminished sound and need to re-seat the scart cable to the TV.
It could be a bad cable....whether you are using SCART or not.

Had a similar problem. My daughter got a new TV and phoned insisting she had everything installed right but could only get black and white. When I visited I just pushed the SCART in the TV a little further and color was restored.

[[_chef_]]

Yeah, true, sounds like a connection problem.

[jagabo]

PAL60?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL