dvd/vcr player- picture fades dark to bright?

Question

i got a new dvd/vcr player. when watching dvds or videos,the picture fades from dark to light. what gives?

Answer 1

Sounds like you're copying copy-protected media to a different media and then watching the copy. Or, you're sending the DVD output through another VCR and then into a TV. Either of these will activate the DVD's copy protection circuitry and cause the problem you describe.

Try just hooking your new player directly into the TV and watching original DVDs or tapes, no copies or bootlegs. It should work fine; if it doesn't, your player might be defective.

Answer 2

I can think of 2 reasons: 1. If your dvd player is hooked through your vcr, then the Macrovision on the vcr will cause the picture on the dvd player to do all kinds of crazy stuff. 2. Is this dvd player hooked up to an HDTV? If so, adjust the 'black' and this should help. Also, light fluxuations can be caused from having the dvd player hooked up through 'Progressive Scan'. Again, adjusting the black level should fix this. 3. The only other thing coming to mind, at the moment, would be a speaker setting on top of, beside or below the television, which is not magnetically shielded enough. Just move speaker further away from television. When I had the same problem, it began right after I hooked up 'Progressive Scan' with component cables. Adjusting the black level fixed the problem. As progressive scan doesn't use 16 frames to make one picture, it uses only 1 frame so although the dvd will now look almost 3-d and AWESOME, this can cause light fluxuations because it must process from 1 frame to 1 different frame and must do it in an instant. good luck :-)