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Just bought a Pacific DVD-750. The display is in Black and white, even before making it multi-region.

Have checked the scart lead. Have tried all video settings - PAL, NTSC and AUTO.

Have I again zeroed in on the duff machine?

Also noticed on the boards that there should be extra options under PAL to prevent problems when playing region 1 - they are not listed on mine.

Thanks in advance

I purchased one of those from Asda on Saturday, and I also initially only had a black/white picture. In my case.. all I did was to reverse my scart lead round. It should`nt really make any difference, but I then had colour.
So its possible my connections were not good or something..I`ve no idea.

I found this player to perform very well especially when you consider its low price and 3years warranty. However I was not too keen on the silver colour as all my TV/video stuff is black. Also I thought it was very plasticy, what made me choose it was for the MP3 option.

I noticed that Asda were also doing the Pacific-1000 (same price. 89-99) which I was more attracted to because of the colour (black) LOL and it seemed a little more robust (metal case)

As I later found out.. the 1000 also plays MP3`s so I returned it to Asda today and swapped it for the 1000 model. I think the 1000 however may be a slightly older model but unsure. At least it does`nt look out of place.

Have you got another scart you can try... I would definately try reversing the lead round... just in case.
At least.. you will have no trouble getting it swapped assuming its from Asda. It performs very well indeed, and there is already region-free and macrovision fixes available via the remote handset.

Hope you sort it out.

Thanks for the suggestion - Tried it, but it made no difference.

Anyone else got an idea?

Does it have anything in the menu to change the output between NTSC and PAL? Because you usually get a black and white picture when they are set to NTSC, try changing it to PAL if you can.

Mark.

*Update, forget that, just re-read, and you`ve already tried it!*

This item was edited on Sunday, 3rd February 2002, 21:10

Thanks for taking the time to look though. Think I`ve just bought another stinker.

it might have a al/ntsc switch on the back which is set at ntsc

Nope! Afraid not, but thanks for the suggestion.

Are you outputing rgb into an s-video input on the Tv , or s-video into rgb?

Davidn

Nope - just using the straightforward SCART lead. The lead worked on a defunct Cyberhome. Have tried reversing it and using the one on my VCR.

I`ve decided "sod it" and will return this POS to Asda.