DVD player connected to a floor model TV?

Question

my inlaws have a sony dvd player, and connected it to and old consol tv, through the imputs on the vcr, now while watching, movies the color switches back and forth from color, to black and white, whats wrong with it

Answer 1

The copy protect in the DVD won't let you hook up through a VCR. That's what makes the screen look weird. An RF modulator connected between the DVD player and your TVs cable input will work. Some have a circuit like a game switch so when the DVD player is of you can receive other signals. Another way is put a video stabilizer in the video line between the DVD and VCR. This would be illegal if used to make copies of copyrighted material.

Answer 2

It could be something in the TV, but more likely it is that the DVD player is run through a VCR. The VCR was not designed for this, but it works sometimes. If the TV does not have the ports on it for the DVD Player there is a device called a "RF Modulator" which the dvd player hooks to and the vcr hooks to then the rf modulator hooks to the tv. The modulator translates the DVD signals so the TV can understand them. It sounds like the VCR is doing this for you now but missing a "Signal" every now and then. But again remember it may be something going bad in the TV, the VCR, the DVD Player, or the DVD that could cause the same thing.

Answer 3

The person above me has zero idea what he/she is talking about, but somehow stumbled into the right answer :) DVD uses copy protection (called macrovision)so that you cannot make a vcr copy of a DVD.. That means that you cannot hook up the dvd player in the way that you have without the problems you are having. You will have to either buy a new tv (expensive), or go to radio shack and get an RF modulator and run the signal in that way (cheap $35 or so)......