Black & white picture

[Burglar]

Hi, I was burning an img-file to a dvdr today, but the picture turned out black & white. The menu, the sound and the picture work perfectly with the exception that the picture is B/W. Does anyone know what may cause this?

My dvd player is a Sony DVP NS405

[Baldrick]

Probably because of NTSC and PAL. Try change the PAL/NTSC settings on your dvd player and TV.

Or it could be a black and white film....

[Burglar]

LOL, naa, it's in color

Hmm, i dont belive i can change the pal/ntsc settings on the dvdplayer. Ahh well, ill have to watch it in B & W then :'(

[zworg2]

LOL, naa, it's in color

Hmm, i dont belive i can change the pal/ntsc settings on the dvdplayer. Ahh well, ill have to watch it in B & W then :'(

Try ya TV then.....as Baldrick said.

If it isnt a dinosaur then it should have 'AV' button or summat similar, and although you may get some discolouration top and bottom it is much better than B&W

[Burglar]

But i always use the AV for my dvd(i have like 5 diffrent but only one give me a picture at all), i dont know how i should else connect it :'( Ill try it some more and see what happens, i mean my original movies work just fine.

[maz323f]

have you sorted it pal?? I have the same problem and i have a sony dvd player also!

[BJ_M]

check the original

[bacardi/avt]

a friend of mine who has a sony player always get B/W picture when trying to watch a NTSC DVD. I could be that sony do not support NTSC on their PAL palyers.

[skeg64]

my sony outputs NTSC just fine. its more likely the tv.

[ntscuser]

my sony outputs NTSC just fine. its more likely the tv.

There are two kinds of NTSC, true NTSC with 3.58Mhz color subcarrier and quasi NTSC with 4.43Mhz colour which is basically PAL. Some TV sets which will display quasi NTSC colour will not display true NTSC color and vice-versa. Some DVD players allow you to switch between the two and some do no not.

[skeg64]

yes, my sony tv allows me to choose NTSC 3.58 or 4.43. I just used it to check what kind is being output by the player, and it is NTSC 3.58.