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Have a Sopranos box set - region 1.

Plays fine on my laptop and on my last DVD player, but have just bought a Sony DAV DV-10 home theatre system and it will only play in black and white on that. The DVD doesn't say on the box whether its PAL or NTSC. Does anyone know whether the problem here is that the DVD is region 1 or is NTSC encoded, and what possible solution is there?
 
Yep, that sounds like the problem. Check the manual for an option to switch from [broken link removed] output.
 
could it be your tv cannot accept an NTSC signal, if it can't handle it properly you get what you're currently experiencing...a B&W picture
 
DrMoriarty said:
Yep, that sounds like the problem. Check the manual for an option to switch from [broken link removed] output.
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Do you mean the TV or the DVD player?? The TV is an old one, probbaly 10 - 15 yr old Philips CRT (very unlikely to still have the manual around!!) - a hand me down from my folks in my new house until I can afford a LCD! I suppose if i connect the DVD player to another TV i will soon find out...
 
A TV that old probably doesn't have the ability to play NTSC standard, but your Sony system should/might have an option to convert the signal from NTSC to PAL(?)

You could buy a separate converter to connect daisy-chain style between the SCART sockets, but they're fairly pricey [broken link removed], and probably not worth it if you're going to upgrade d'telly soon anyway.

Shure, isn't The Sopranos more 'atmospheric' in B&W, anyway..? ;)

[Edit: here's a rather cheaper one — or you could try eBay? The only other option would be to make copies of the DVDs — technically illegal — and run the .ISO files through this patcher before burning them.]
 
definitly the TV, you have to get a ntsc to pal convertor online maybe, i got one for my NTSC playstation to my pal TV, the pictures turn from B&W into normal straight away.
 
With our DVD player if I take the signal out of the scart it comes out in B&W but if I take a signal from the phono output it comes out in colour.

Don't know why but it works fine out of the phono output.

ruam
 
Ruam said:
With our DVD player if I take the signal out of the scart it comes out in B&W but if I take a signal from the phono output it comes out in colour.

Don't know why but it works fine out of the phono output.

ruam
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as long as u can get full colour picture from B&W and sound come out ok then it doesn't matter how u plug it in.

electronics can be strange sometimes.
 
Could also be a 10 pin SCART which imits RGB signals rather than a 21 pin SCART which includes them. This relates to the wiring - both variants will have a full 21 pin connector. Without opening up the cable/connector it may be difficult to say. Try another SCART lead if possible.

Update: see here.
[SIZE=-1] Will a SCART lead give me full color pictures?

A SCART lead has 21 pins which have many uses. Unless the SCART lead is wired for RGB, then the NTSC picture will appear on a PAL television in black and white. This is because the SCART lead is only wired for composite video and not RGB. With an RBG SCART lead, both PAL and NTSC Playstation pictures will be displayed in a full sharp color.[/SIZE]
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ClubMan said:
Could also be a 10 pin SCART which imits RGB signals rather than a 21 pin SCART which includes them. This relates to the wiring - both variants will have a full 21 pin connector. Without opening up the cable/connector it may be difficult to say. Try another SCART lead if possible.

Update: see here.
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Will try that. That's all for the advice.

Ruam
 
ClubMan said:
Could also be a 10 pin SCART which imits RGB signals rather than a 21 pin SCART which includes them. This relates to the wiring - both variants will have a full 21 pin connector. Without opening up the cable/connector it may be difficult to say. Try another SCART lead if possible.

Update: see here.
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There was something when setting up the DVD player about RGB or Video format - presumably if i make sure its on video and not RGB it will have same effect?
 
You'd need to clarify precisely what the option was. I would still check out the SCART lead in case it's only wired for 10 pin and this is the cause of your problem. Circumstantial evidence would certainly lead me to believe that this is a likely cause of the problem.
 
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