Can someone help me get a DVD player working?

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Good evening WPers,

I don't often visit this part of Wrong Planet, becuase I'm really not that exceptional at technology stuff, but I was hoping someone here might have some DVD player setup smarts, and could help me get this blasted thing working.

(Please forgive me, I know this probably isn't an appropriate place to ask... but nobody's been able to help and I'm at my wit's end!)

It's a Panasonic DMR-ES35V, hooked up to a Sanyo TV I no longer have the documentation for. Everything is working, except.... the picture on the screen is in black and white. The DVDs or videos it records are in colour when played on another machine, but black and white when played on this one. I've checked the connections, tried different cables, even had a bloke from the shop come and have a look, but no joy. Apparently it worked in colour at the shop before I took it home.

Can anyone help?

No nothing about the subject but been looking on the net and found this

Assuming your using such cable then seems the red and blue signals are not working?

I wonder if you must tell the tv or DVD player what output your using and if you tell it the wrong thing could just a B&W picturer result?

Another idea:

http://www.area450.com/support/troubles ... white.html

Not sure what standard is used in Australian NTSC or PAL (or other I guess). Or where you got you dvd player or tv from. But I assume regardless you will need the DVD player to be set to the correct output for your tv. So try to change the NTSC or PAL output setting on the DVVD player to see if it fixes the problem.

Or if your TV is capable of multiformat set it to either PAL or NTSC .

Last edited by TheMachine1 on 04 May 2007, 5:57 am, edited 1 time in total.

make sure your dvd player is a pal dvd player or specific to whatever your region uses (i'm guessing pal). that could be why you're not getting color.


then again, i don't get why it would play the dvd....unless it was a region-less dvd (i don't think region 1 is supposed to play on region 2...not entirely sure though...never bothered to try).


edit: actually i'm fairly certain that the issue is that the dvd is playing in the wrong format. when i was working on cricket 07, if you chose the other option instead of the one native to the tv, it'd display in b&w.

I'm still waiting to play my first DVD. I found a DVD-rom drie in the garbage at a computer store (cd-rom part works) but I never owned a dvd to test

It gets stranger!

I'm in Australia, where PAL is the standard format. The TV is both PAL and NTSC compatible - but it doesn't have a menu function or switch to toggle between the two, so I assume it does it automatically.

If I set the DVD to PAL, everything is in black and white.

If I set it to NTSC, the on-screen menus and my NTSC discs play incolour. However videos, PAL discs and the TV are still monochrome. So the problem's with the format, somewhere.

But I'm taking it back to the shop today (they left a DVD in it in their last failed attempt to get it working, so I have to go in anyway) and I might just ask if I can return it and get a different machine, or my money back. For six hundred dollars, I shouldn't have to play detective just to watch a movie.