R1 disk appears black n white on Toshiba SD220

[mantisgeek]

My chinese made player (Shinco) broke down a few weeks ago and I decided to buy a branded DVD player this time round. Took delivery of the multiregion Toshiba SD220 yesterday (from amazon.co.uk for £119) and found that all my region 1 and region 6 disks appear in black and white. They were all shown in colour on my previous Shinco player and I know my TV is NTSC compatible. Has anyone come across this problem on the Tosh and if so do you know how I can resolve this problem?

Thanks for any help in advance.

[mantisgeek]

Can anyone help me with this query?? I don't want to return it since it seems to be a good quality product.

Cheers

[rmalik]

i have the same problem my friend.... i have a Toshiba SD220 region2. And all Discs i play outside region 2 play in only Black and White. And the picture appears grainy, which is only improved by selecting the video mode as S Video which only stops the graininess but still shows the movie in Black and White. HELP!. Let me know what u find...i will keep u posted but u must give me yr email too.

my email is
razwanm@hotmail.com

[mantisgeek]

rmalik,

I finally found out what the problem was (which might be different to what you are experiencing). It was a combination of SCART socket on my TV and the SCART cable I was using - a bit complicated so here goes.

I have 2 SCART sockets on my TV (AV1 & AV2), one of which is RGM enabled (AV1). This is the crucial part - you should connect the RGB enabled socket to your DVD player. One of my problems was that I was using AV2 (since AV1 was connected to my VCR). The other problem I had was that my cheapo SCART socket I had did not have all the pins connected so the RGB signals were not sent to my TV. I have since purchased some more expensive SCART cable with all pins connected.

It all works hunky dory now :P

Hope this helps with solving your problem.

Cheers,

Mantisgeek