Bad picture when hooking DVD player up to DVD recorder via SCART

[guy24s]

I am attempting to hook up a DVD player to my DVD recorder through SCART but the picture ends up being in black & white, pixelated and just generally terrible. I have tried this before, with a different DVD player, and got the same results. It does it both on the menu and when playing a disc. I am using the same SCART cable to hook a VHS player up to the same DVD recorder with no issues; this only happens when I try to hook up DVD players to it. What is causing this and how can I fix it? PS: I have also tried to hook them up using RCA cables with same results. The DVD recorder and all the DVD players I've tried hooking up are in PAL format.
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[hech54]

Copy Protection?
If the DVD is NTSC....that's also a problem.

[guy24s]

Copy Protection?
If the DVD is NTSC....that's also a problem.

It does it before even attempting to play a disc though, like on the menues and stuff. Surely that couldn't be due to copy protection?
The discs I've played are PAL discs (and containing content that isn't copy protected).

[Skiller]

The checkerboard pattern on top of black and white video indicates the color subcarrier of a Composite video signal is not being decoded. This is either because of mismatching analog color modulation schemes (PAL vs. NTSC) or because the receiving device is expecting S-Video rather than Composite. So first thing to do is check your recorder's Scart AV-in settings. Needs to be on Composite, not S-Video (also called Y/C).

[hech54]

The checkerboard pattern on top of black and white video indicates the color subcarrier of a Composite video signal is not being decoded. This is either because of mismatching analog color modulation schemes (PAL vs. NTSC) or because the receiving device is expecting S-Video rather than Composite. So first thing to do is check your recorder's Scart AV-in settings. Needs to be on Composite, not S-Video (also called Y/C).

Or a cheap SCART cable that is not fully "pinned". It's actually quite hard to find a fully pinned SCART cable....I have one......ONE.

[netmask56]

The checkerboard pattern on top of black and white video indicates the color subcarrier of a Composite video signal is not being decoded. This is either because of mismatching analog color modulation schemes (PAL vs. NTSC) or because the receiving device is expecting S-Video rather than Composite. So first thing to do is check your recorder's Scart AV-in settings. Needs to be on Composite, not S-Video (also called Y/C).

Or a cheap SCART cable that is not fully "pinned". It's actually quite hard to find a fully pinned SCART cable....I have one......ONE.

Same - I still have one from 20 years ago!

[hech54]

Same - I still have one from 20 years ago!

Thick as a baby's arm.