Philips DVDR70 is driving me nuts (NTSC Disk on PAL Machine)

[John_A]

Well I decided against the £200 dvd recorder form sainsburys and got me a Philips DVDR70 (£230 @ Makro UK)

I'm happy with record quality etc. I have used the region free hack and now my other non R2 disks will play (R1 NTSC mostly) but they are in black and white.

I can find no option to fix this and it's killing me as at least half my collection is R1 (450-ish so far)

I've searched and have found nothing but questions, I have latest firmware etc. I really need to get this sorted so first person to post a working solution gets £20 via PayPal or DVD of choice from store of choice shipped direct to your door.

Help Me !!!

Thanks

[goldmember1]

Go into your setup menu & set it to output RGB.

[donpedro]

Does it realy convert NTSC to PAL or is it just playing NTSC but TV have to understand it ?

[John_A]

Go into your setup menu & set it to output RGB.

It's already set to RGB. My TV understands NTSC as it worked on previous DVD players etc.

Any other ideas?

[John_A]

Does it realy convert NTSC to PAL or is it just playing NTSC but TV have to understand it ?

TV has to understand NTSC as far as I know.

[goldmember1]

It’s definitely playing black & white because of the NTSC colour standard try another scart on the back of your TV. Only one scart will except RGB. My guess is that your other Dvd players were not out putting pure NTSC but Pal 60 which is pal colour with the NTSC frame rate 60. The R70 must be out putting pure NTSC but it can be sorted with RGB.

[John_A]

It’s definitely playing black & white because of the NTSC colour standard try another scart on the back of your TV. Only one scart will except RGB. My guess is that your other Dvd players were not out putting pure NTSC but Pal 60 which is pal colour with the NTSC frame rate 60. The R70 must be out putting pure NTSC but it can be sorted with RGB.

Hmmm, still no go. I see many have had this problem but this is the very first time i've seen this solution but it does not work for me.

Thanks

[John_A]

Would anyone happen to know the code to restore it to out of box condition? I did find it but lost it and now can't find it again

I'm going to return it to factory state until this NTSC problem can be solved.

[anaboland]

i have a dvdr 890 and it only outputs in NTSC (no standards conversion),
which will play in b+w on a PAL only tv, regardless of which scart or output type you use.

i image the new philips recorders are similar.

Not all dvd players avaliable do standards conversion and the system settings they have are to allow you to use them on a tv of the choosen
system. Also region settings have no effect on what colour system your player outputs.

you either need to get a multi-standard tv, or a standards converter to do the conversion.

[goldmember1]

John_A what make is your TV & can you give me the model number. My old TV doesn’t play NTSC but a RGB setting on any stand-alone Dvd player solves this.

[John_A]

I don't understand, even if RGB is selected the signal would still be NTSC.

I guess my old Panasonic player did hardware NTSC to PAL conversion. The TV is a goodmans 28" widescreen about 3 years old. Not sure of model number.

I think i'll look into an extrnal converter but I'd really like the code to restire it default factory setting (Remove multiregion etc)

Thanks!

[donpedro]

Did you check this option ?

'Black level shift'
Adapts the colour dynamics for NTSC playback

Other that that it seams that whatever you used before converted signal to PAL or PAL60 and Philips is sending only NTSC signal that your TV does not understand.

[energy80s]

This is a problem with your TV not with the DVD Recorder. If it is displaying a black and white picture on an NTSC signal input then it isn't a multistandard set. Probably the cheapest solution is to buy a cheap DVD player that will convert NTSC to PAL on the fly and use it in tandem with your Philips recorder.

[luvvbuzz]

thats what i have done energy 80s, i have a philips dvdr70 recorder, i have left it bog standard no region hacks or anything. i also got a cyberhome ch400 from wh smiths for £50 which is a brilliant little player. it plays everything you can put in it, and it have region hacked it so i play all my region 1 dvds in it and i really just use the philips dvdr70 for recording.
by the way, since some people on this thread have dvr70 recorders, a friend of mine from holland has the dvdr70 and he says some of them have a faulty lazer. they go wrong after about a year and aparently philips will fix it under warranty, so he told me. i havent had nay problems like that with mine and it was the first i had heard of it, have any of you heard this before?
my tv is about 8 years old and plays ntsc no problem.