Page 1 of Alba DVD 114-Need Help!!

I used the Alba DVD 114 multi region hack that is on this website and it does now play region 1 dvds. However, the picture is flickering all the time. Can anyone solve this problem? Any answers would be a gr8 help! Thanks!

It`s likely to be your TV`s fault, rather than the player`s. Are you sure that your telly is capable of accepting a 60Hz video input?

Mike

I tried all the codes from different sites, they are all a load of cack!....all i had to do was swap the scart leads over on the back of the TV....It seems the ALBA 114 is already set up to play all regions, it just needed the wires crossing over.....Good luck
Naggy

Now i can watch M.A.S.H. region 1...i am a very happy bunny!

This item was edited on Friday, 7th March 2003, 11:03

Sounds like you were experiencing Macrovision (the antipiracy trickery built in to the DVD output signal) This has nothing to do with region codings which are purely to stop you buying cheap DVDs in Asia for example and playing them in Europe or USA. You probably routed your DVD thru your VCR which in most cases will be affected as you describe by the macrovision interfering with the colour or brightness. A small number of older VCRs are unaffected. Macrovision exploits subtle differences between TV and VCR signal decoding and uses these to interfere with VCR`s but not TVs (there may be some exceptions).
So to summarise - in general yuo cannot record a decent copy from most DVDs (some dont use Macrovision so are the exception) but you can display them fine if your DVD is not routed thru your VCR.
If you can disable Macrosion on your DVD player then there is no problem either way.