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Old 21-05-2003, 12:41
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i have a sony dvp-pq1 and while its fine on mine(sharp) and a friends(goodmans i believe) tv, on another friends set and the tv downstairs when playing a vcd it will switch to black and white only, when you return to the players menu, that too is black and while, it reverts back to colour when turned off and on, until you press play that is

since i first noticed it (friends 14" portable with dvd looped through video assumed it was crap equipment) ive always made sure i reencode as pal (just in case, since most of it comes from US) but that didnt help, was gutted when the same problem showed up on my mums 28" hitatchi prologic set, either plugged directly in or into cheapo phillips vhs

any thoughts?
am tring to make a vhs of matrix reloaded, a copy to anyone who can help
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Old 21-05-2003, 15:29
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It's probably outputting in S-Video. Change the Line Out settings to Composite and "Robert's your Mother's Brother".
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Old 21-05-2003, 16:42
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maybe, but sony have been skimping on menu functions for this particular model
i have the option of

tv type: 16x9/4x3
audio att: on/off
digital out: on/off
dolby digital: dolby digital/d-pcm
mpeg: mpeg/pcm
dts: on/off

the player has no scart, all connections from it are phono type, i was under the impression these could only deliver composite anyway
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Old 22-05-2003, 17:24
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Quite correct, if you only have phono sockets compersite is your only option, which is the worst option.

If the player is fairly new take it back, due to the black and white fault , but do not take a repair due to the fact that it is not fit for the purpose that you brought it for, as it has no RGB output
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Old 22-05-2003, 20:03
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I have quiet the same problem, only i think it is the tv that is the crap here.

I brought a VCR from home that worked fine, to my girlfriend, hooked it up to her tv using a standard euro scart cable and it displayed everything in black and white. Seeing as the vcr is rather old, my guess is that its composite scart.

But when we hoocked up a PS one to the tv using standard euro scart it also was black and white...

Anyone got any idea how to 'fix' this as my gf wants to buy a PS2 but offcourse... only if this gets fixed
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Old 22-05-2003, 20:30
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Originally posted by Ignis
I have quiet the same problem, only i think it is the tv that is the crap here.

I brought a VCR from home that worked fine, to my girlfriend, hooked it up to her tv using a standard euro scart cable and it displayed everything in black and white. Seeing as the vcr is rather old, my guess is that its composite scart.

But when we hoocked up a PS one to the tv using standard euro scart it also was black and white...

Anyone got any idea how to 'fix' this as my gf wants to buy a PS2 but offcourse... only if this gets fixed
I can have this prob with a sony TV, each AV input seems to have 2 settings. If I press the AV button on the remote I get AV1 in colour press it again I get AV1 in black and white, press it again I get AV2 in colour, etc. I think this is because each input can be either RGB or SVideo. So try pressing the AV button multiple times and see what happens
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Old 23-05-2003, 02:13
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Originally posted by JonMace
Quite correct, if you only have phono sockets compersite is your only option, which is the worst option.

If the player is fairly new take it back, due to the black and white fault , but do not take a repair due to the fact that it is not fit for the purpose that you brought it for, as it has no RGB output
i have the option of s video if i wanted, im not sure of the benefits, though i imagine you might be able to tell me, and anyways would require getting a cable and having the front flap down on the tv

my digital box is set to rgb and i wouldnt have it any other way but id hardly call composite unfit for the purpose sold

reasons for owning the sony picot

it plays vcds, a feature lacking in the old hitatchi downstairs
its more than happy with cds at low bitrates (for length) and rws, one of which stumps my friends dvd player

the player can be easily taken there and plays in colour (with both of us owning fairly nice widescreen tvs probably)

for its main role as playing internet sourced material, so its mpeg 1 here and as stated sometimes at a reduced bitrate, though it does give a pretty watchable pic

i dont think composite will make a blind bit of difference

and i cant help loving the way it looks

am gonna try reencoding just to make sure it isnt an ntsc problem, if thats likely to be an issue?
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Old 23-05-2003, 15:31
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Whats the manner of connection. ie do you have a set of phono leads comming out of the DVD player that plug into a scart plug on the TV, if you do some of these adaptos have a switch to allow SVideo as well if the switch is in the wrong position that may be the cause of your trouble
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Old 23-05-2003, 16:19
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the player has 4 phono outs,video/L/R and one labled digital out (coaxel) not used, which do plug into a scart adaptor, though no switches

i have an s-video out, requiring an s-video lead, what difference would using this make?

good news though, reencoded copy now plays in colour
guess my tv does ntsc, downstairs doesnt

thanks to everyone who scratched their heads on my behalf
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Old 23-05-2003, 19:13
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if you can you should definately use S-video instead of composite, the quality is much better, still not quite as good as RGB but not that far off at all.

if you have a S-video socket on your TV all you need is a standard S-video lead however a lot of TVs dont have this socket and can only take S-video via the scart socket in which case you would need either a S-video lead and a scart block with S-video socket on it or a special S-video to scart lead, i got one of these recently from Special Reserve its actually named as DVD out to scart, got it for using the TV out on my computer for games and movies was amazing how much better it was than the cheap composite lead i had before
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