DVD player is all wishy washy colour wise.

[timmy toad]

Watching our TV normally the Colour is fine, but if we play a DVD the movies are almost Black and White, all the Colour Controls on the TV are turned up to there MAX.

We GOT a Cheap (£40) bush dvd player when our even cheaper (£30) Maxim dvd player broke down,thinking the cheap Bush DVD player was crap, because of the poor colour we got a (very reputable make) SONY dvd player for £50 today and the colour is no better, so what can i do now ?

Would there by any chance be a DEMO disc available that i can play, that would for example put a name to the colours that are being displayed so we can come to some decision as to what i can do about it.

It is very confusing because normal TV programs are perfectly OK, i can play them on my Lap Tops DVD drive and the Movies show there true colours perfectly.

tim

[Cheesus]

Check all the different variables, test them one by one, so you discount them, until you narrow down the problem and solve it. You can discount it's the DVD player because you've tried two different types.
Is it the cables, check using different cables. Is it the input, use a different AV input.
You are not using the luminance input of a three wire component input are you? This may cause you to have only black and white pictures, as the colour signals should be received on another two cables which you may not be plugging in. It's also possible you are playing NTSC discs into a television that does not accept an NTSC signal. Are the discs from the US or Japan?

[setarip_old]

@ timmy toad

Hi!

Try playing any commercial DVD that has the LucasFilm video adjusting program on it...

[timmy toad]

Check all the different variables, etc

thanks friend, all i got connecting it up is a scart cable.

[timmy toad]

Try playing any commercial DVD that has the LucasFilm video adjusting program on it...I didnt know about this friend, how do i know which DVD's have got this on ?.

tim

[Cheesus]

try an rca cable (usually get a yellow lead for video and red and white ones for stereo audio) or another scart lead.

[timmy toad]

Yippeee i cracked it, I have been giving my problem a lot of thought at work today, when i got home i simply plugged the Scart lead into another (empty) socket in the back of the TV.

thanks for your help everyone.

tim

[setarip_old]

Yippeee i cracked it

Congratulations on resolving your dilemma!

Sometimes the solutions are simple ;>}