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Hi all, I need some help.

I just bought a multi region Toshiba SD210E. It plays region 2 discs without any problems - the sound and picture and both fantastic. I also have 5 DVDs that I bought a while ago in France that say "no regional encoding" and "playable worldwide" on the covers. They are not pirate copies!!! These play perfectly fine on my DVD player on my PC, but when I play them on the SD210E, I get a black and white picture that scrolls continuously up the screen. I can see the movie playing behind it, but don`t know what the problem might be. I have tried switching to PAL from AUTO, but am told it is not a PAL disc, so I try again on AUTO and get the black and white picture again.

Has anyone else come across this? Have I been sold a region 2 player mistakenly labelled as multi region? Is there some other thing I should be trying?

If you know the answer, please can you mail me at yeltneb.nomis[at]moc.xepip.laid and copy yeltneb.nomis[at]moc.vresif.sbc?

Much appreciated....

Simon

I have a similar problem with My Sd210 - it`s black and white, but not scrolling. I called the dealer - the problem is that region 1 disks are NTSC. This will not work unless your TV will accept NTSC. Makes sense.I`ll know if it is true when my new telly arrives in a couple of weeks.

steve

You should find by routing your DVD to your TV`s RGB scart, and setting the SCART output to RGB that this problem will go away.

Alternatively, does the Tosh have a switch or an in-menu setting to change the output so that it converts NTSC to PAL ?

I also have the same model and am experiencing similar problems. I got it off a company called rings and have no idea what they did to make it multi-region.

My picture is just black and white on a region1 NTSC disc I borrowed off a mate to test the thing. The set-up does have a setting to switch from auto to PAL but when I set this the disc won`t play. I get a message saying `not PAL disc` on my TV and the front panel flashes across with `restricted DVD`.

The spec in the back of the mnual says the signal system is PAL/3.58NTSC. I have no idea what the 3.58 bit means. I have also considered whether now is a good time to change my TV but do all new TV`s accept NTSC signals or not. Some TV spec`s mention things about NTSC and some don`t.

As Clayts said, you should try using an RGB-capable scart lead connected to the appropriate socket (usually AV1) before doing anything drastic. There`s an option to change the output to RGB in the set-up menu (default is `video-out`). The Toshiba players only do pure NTSC (3.58) and don`t offer a Pal 60 alternative unless you get it specially modified. RGB splits the image into all the different primary colours (red, green, blue) so will cure a b/w picture but MIGHT not solve the rolling/distortion issues described by the first poster (maybe the TV can`t cope with 30fps?). It will always say "playback restricted" when you select PAL for non-PAL material (even multi-region players will do this) and you`ll have to leave it set to Auto regardless of the disc/region!.

OK, the source of my problem as I discovered over the weekend is that my TV does not accept NTSC input, so I need a new TV. As a footnote to some of the other comments. If you only get black and white output from your NTSC film, switch from Video or S-Video to RGB output to correct this.

Thanks for your comments everyone.