NTSC TV ?

Posted by Allan [IP: 157.123.138.60] on October 29, 1998 at 17:04:55:

In Reply to: NTSC TV ? posted by Ozgur Cetinoglu on October 29, 1998 at 09:19:38:

Is the DVD player or TV or both European? If so check for an on screen menu item or a switch or knob in back labeled "NTSC", "USA", "high band", "low band", "3.58", "color encode", "subcarrier" or "sub". If you find something like this, try another setting on just the DVD player or just the TV one at a time. The correct setting for U.S. programs is "3.58" or "low". There exists a European format of NTSC with a different color subcarrier which would come in as black and white if the TV and DVD don't match each other.

Check your cable connections. If you connect the "Y" jack (one of a group of three RCA jacks labeled Component) of the DVD player to the Video In jack (all by itself) of the TV, you get a black and white picture.

To use the component video jacks of the DVD player the TV must have a component video connection (usually a group of three RCA jacks requiring three cables)

Next best connection is S-video. This has a jack of a different shape with four or five little holes in it. Be sure you TV also has one of these jacks before you go out and buy the cable.

Third choice which most TV's can take is composite video. Use the single RCA jack on the DVD player, often labeled just Video Out or Monitor. Connect that to the single Video In jack of the TV.

Since you got any picture at all, you are getting NTSC through from DVD player to TV.

Also try unplugging and replugging each jack one at a time, this cleans and improves the contact.

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