Help no colour on camcorder playback!!

dlb

Hi all, we went to Florida for a hoilday of a life time thanks to dear mother in law in sept 05, but we cant get our video to play back in colour!!

We have tried playing it back through different camcorders and tvs ect but to no luck, bought a new lead no luck, we recorded it in lp which we were told maybe why it isnt in colour???

Help i would love to sit with kids and watch it but disney isnt quite the same in black and white.

It is as panasonic nv-ex3 mini dv.

superfly_2

try changing your tv from AV to CVBS if it has this function, you will prob have to go through its menu system. it sounds as though the tv is set to the wrong format and this should solve it.

dlb

I have a feeling we have tried this but i will ask dh when he gets back from footy thanks.Im so desperate to work this out.

BillScarab

Does it playback in colour on the built in LCD screen on the camcorder? Only reason I ask is that I have a Panasonic camcorder and it has a night vision mode on it which records in black and white, it is fairly easy to knock the switch and activate it by accident, I've done it myself.

dlb

Yes on the lcd it is in colour just black and white on the tv.

DrSmutt

is it an NTSC camera?

dlb

DrSmutt wrote:

is it an NTSC camera?

What does that mean? Sorry, if it means is it an american camcorder no, it was brought in the uk.
Sorry as you can tell i need you lot in the knows help!! LOL

DrSmutt

dlb wrote:

What does that mean? Sorry, if it means is it an american camcorder no, it was brought in the uk.
Sorry as you can tell i need you lot in the knows help!! LOL

Sorry didnt think.

go into the menus and look to see if it has a video out option set it to PAL.

How are you connecting to the tv? jack to scart, jack to phono

if jack to scart try the other scart socket if your tv has 2. mine has a euro scart and a standard scart which do different things.

albertross_2

are you using an s-video lead?

dlb

Hi again we have tried both jack to phone and jack to scart.And and still black and white.
It is set to PAL option.
Cant you tell hubby back fromf ooty to help me answer your questions!!LOL

dlb

We have tried a s video lead, the only other thing i can tell you is when we tried playing the tapes through another video camera it was in colour but went all `blocky` moving blocks of fuzzyness all over making it unwatchable.