Posted by Mike S. on 01/10/68 11:52

In article <1151376838.236067.56200@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
<beerdini@gmail.com> wrote:
>A friend of mine made a compiliation video for me of old home movies,
>pictures, etc... that were placed on DVD to play at a family party.
>The video plays perfectly fine on my computer, but when I try to play
>it on my dvd player the video is in black and white and the screen is
>scrambled where other DVD's work perfectly fine. For anyone that can
>remember the v-hold on older tv's, the v-hold keeps running down the
>screen I can't find a way to fix it on my Panasonic dvd-f65. Is the
>problem an incorrect format we recorded the DVD in or will I have to
>look at the player for the source of the problems?


Are you on different continents? The distortion you describe sounds like
what happens when a DVD player feeds a PAL signal into an NTSC television.
If this is the case, chekc that your DVD player's TV system is set to
match your set, and not "AUTO".

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