Technical assistance, please - Page 3

el borracho · 12-28-2004, 12:31 AM

I am looking for possible solutions to the following problem: when viewing DVDs the picture quality degenerates going from normal to dark with qualities of a photo negative (light areas appear darkest, dark areas lighter) and then back to normal again. This happens in a nearly continuous cycle which is obviously annoying.

Potential clues:
*Regular television viewing does not have this problem
*Video cassette viewing does not have this problem.
*The DVD player is routed through the VCR (via RCA cables)
*I have replaced the co-ax cable from VCR to TV (no effect on the problem)

Ideas?

**Baby Lee** · 12-28-2004, 10:36 AM

You have to run direct to the TV. Running the DVD player through the VCR activates Macrovision copy protection, which is the degeneration you see, even if you aren't recording.

4th and Long · 12-28-2004, 10:36 AM

Has anyone suggested this yet?

Just curious.

**Baby Lee** · 12-28-2004, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by el borracho

TV is on 3; co-ax cable is fine. It now seems to be an either or problem with the tv. I can have either the VCR via the co-ax or I can have the DVD via the RCA but not both. I don't know... maybe the TV is junk?

Maybe a stupid question, but have you toggled the TV/Video button on your remote when using coax? RCA outputs are always 'hot.' but the coax can be toggled off with that button so you can watch something on the TV tuner while recording something different on the VCR.
Also, you may have brushed the channel selector switch on the VCR, and the VCR coax signal is now being sent to channel 4.

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