The colour on my tv isn't working, can you suggest how to fix it?

Question

the tv in my room recently decided to go black & white on me! i can't watch tv, only dvd's so i don't know if its the tv or the dvd player which has a problem. i've watched some different movies and they're all black & white so its not the dvd. can you tell me what might be wrong or where to look to fix the problem etc. many thanks & much love!!

Answer 1

You can sometimes get black and white pictures on a TV if you are playing a PAL DVD on an NTSC TV/DVD player or vice versa. Has anyone been playing with the TV/DVD settings? You may want to see if someone has changed it.

Alternatively, perhaps the DVDs you are playing are from a different country where they use NTSC instead of PAL (or vice versa)?

Put in a DVD that has previously worked correctly (i.e. in colour) and see if the problem persists. If not, then the problem is with an incompatible DVD. If it's still B&W, check the DVD player and TV settings to see if someone has changed the settings from PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL.

The other, far less likely, possibility is that the TV has drifted slightly out of tune with your DVD (probably also from somebody fiddling since TVs have circuitry to prevent that from happening by itself.

Of course, it could just be a fault in the TV itself in which case you'd need to get it repaired.

Hope this helps.

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EDIT: You don't say what country you are in so I can't tell you whether or not you are supposed to be using NTSC or PAL. The US uses NTSC, Australia, where I am, uses PAL. Most other countries use one of these two systems but there are some countries in Europe that use a 3rd system called SECAM (at least they used to, not sure, off the top of my head, if they still do. I haven't heard anything about SECAM for quite a while so I'm not sure.

Answer 2

Get a HDTV