I bought a new dvd and everytime i play the dvd the picture goes from light to dark and then starts skipping!!

Question

i do have my dvd hooked up to a my vcr, I tried 5 different DVD players and I excanged the DVD 3 times, with e the same results.

Answer 1

do you have your dvd player hooked up to a vcr.
i have my xbox 360 hooked directly to my home theater console and get a fairly clear picture on movies

Answer 2

That's the copy protection. I think it's called macrovision and it has to do with signal level jacking to keep a VCR from being able to copy the video.

In order to see this DVD video clearly, you need to run it directly into your TV or through something that will "gate" the video and ignore the high amplitude distractions instead of getting "dark."

Common options include separate RF modulators that equipment like Xboxes have, video "color-correctors" (google for "sima color corrector") which perform this gating to eliminate the retrace blanking peaks along with the darkening effect and the sub-titles which are carried in the same portion of the video signal.

Most likely there's nothing wrong with the DVD player OR the video. It's your set-up. It just doesn't work like your cable box and doesn't respond well to piping through the VCR. Don't use a VCR as an RF modulator because it's signal level tracking is very slow (so that it can make good tapes with standard input devices). Either go direct to RF Modulator, Direct video to the TV, or modify the signal with a signal gater as described above.

Direct video looks best. Enjoy.

Answer 3

try it in a different dvd player, ift it continues to cause problems, take it back that's what i did with a video once and i had no problems getting a new one...good luck :)

Answer 4

Some movie huh....

Answer 5

why don't u return it?