DVD Player ourputs B&W only

oldwiring

It is a Panny DVD-S35. There are AFAICS no connections astray and the TV is showing in colour. However DVDs are playing in B&W and I can find nothing about the problem in handbook. Has anyone a suggestion? Preferably polite.:D

matto

What connections are you using? SCART to SCART? or SCART to S-VIDEO? You may need to find a menu setting to change the DVD output to PAL not NTSC.

Zahc

Try it on another TV. It could be the TV scart connection up the shoot. Try another scart cable, that too could be up the swanny.

oldwiring

TV has only one scart socket and that is used to link with VCR. DVD player is linked with TV by three colured plugs like those which go in to the backs of computers.

Sorry I don't get the point about NTSC.

I have had the player for about 4 years and this has never happende before and I haven't AFAIK reset anything or played about.

Terminator3d

What DVD is it you are attempted to play? Check on the back of the DVD box to see if it is encoded in NTSC or PAL. Some DVD players and televisions will not support NTSC which is the standard used in USA. This may have occured if it is an American DVD with no region code attached to the disc.

Do other DVDs still play in full colour?

Terminator3d

http://www.videohelp.com/ is a good source of information for issues like this.

spicy_b

some TVs are only PAL play back, so it could also be your tv, like its been said before, try it on a different tv and see how tht goes!

oldwiring

I forgot to say that I also tried with a cd of jpg images that are in colour and which have played back OK before.

We're simple souls and have only one TV; we surely anteluvian. It means I'll have to beg boorow from somewhere as a last resort. Am I guraanteed that the sub TV will have the right sockets for connecting?

Zahc

Right, we need to find the source of the problem. It's one of 3 things;

1. Your tv video input is goosed; check by trying on your neighbours tv (most have the connections you need.) If it works, your tv's let go. If it doesn't work.......

2. Your dvd output is incorrect/bust

3. The least likely, but not impossible, your cable is broken. If this were the case, you wouldn't normally get any picture at all. But it's just possible that you've a screening to core short. Don't be shy, have a wiggle of the plugs with a dvd playing.:D

Gatecra5her

I'm pretty sure it's an NTSC/PAL problem. If i were you i'd connect the VCR to the tv through the composite (yellow red and white cables you're using for your dvd player now) and connect the dvd player to the tv through the scart your vcr is using at the moment. If the vcr does not have outputs in composite format then you can buy a scart to composite lead, such as:

http://www.pcmegastore.nl/catalog/images/scartcomp.jpg
this should solve your problem.

-Mark

Zahc

oldwiring wrote:

I forgot to say that I also tried with a cd of jpg images that are in colour and which have played back OK before.

Sorry read that as dvd, got to get my eyes sorted out. You must have DVD you know that works? Give it a go and take us all out of suspense!:rotfl: