No Colour!!!

[luke_503]

Hi

I have a problem playing VCD's and backed up DVD's on my DVD Player. (multiregion) It is VCD/CD-R/DVD-R compatable but plays backed up DVD's in black and white. Orginial DVD's will play fine while VCD's even orginals play without colour.

Any help???

thanks

[Tommyknocker]

Could the DVDs/VCDs have been burned into PAL and the DVD player set to NTSC or vice versa?

[luke_503]

right, changed the settings to PAL and the VCD's play fine

As with the DVD's when the DVD Player is set to PAL a error message appears saying "Not PAL" When I switch the settings back to Auto the DVD's play in black and white.

thanks again
Luke

[luke_503]

I have now found out that this only occurs when playing reigon 1 DVD's on my multi reigon DVD player.

Does anyone know why this happens???

Plz help!!

[bugster]

I have now found out that this only occurs when playing reigon 1 DVD's on my multi reigon DVD player.

Does anyone know why this happens???

Plz help!!

Region 1 DVD's are NTSC. Your DVD player will probably output an NTSc signal whne it sees NTSC format DVD's. Your TV needs to be able to handle this or you get B & W pictures.

[luke_503]

Its a fairly new tv, 3-4 years old and is a Sony Truton, so really I will need a new TV?

[Gurm]

Either the TV or the DVD player doesn't output NTSC properly. You can probably get some sort of external NTSC->PAL doohicky, but I don't know where offhand.

- Gurm

[Gurm]

Either the TV or the DVD player doesn't output NTSC properly. You can probably get some sort of external NTSC->PAL doohicky, but I don't know where offhand.

- Gurm

[bugster]

Check your DVD players set up menus or manuals. SOme have the option to output NTSC material as either NTSC or PAL-60. If you can, switch it from whatever it is now to the other and see if it fixes the problem. I would expect your TV to be able to handle at least one of these.

[luke_503]

tried what you all said but with no look.

Does anyone know if there is a converter or special scart leader or anything that I can buy and where from??

thanks guys

[dvdflea]

Get a computer and use a TV out card. That should get rid of your NTSC/PAL problems.