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Can anyone please help me. I need a region hack for a phillips dvdr5520h. IT plays my dvds from usa but in black and white. Which drives me crazy, so if anyone out there can help me.

If your Phillips dvdr5520h is already playing DVDs from other countries but in black and white then it is almost certainly the TV you are using that is the problem.

If a TV is not able to handle the USA picture signal which is called NTSC, then it will display any NTSC picture in black and white.

As your USA DVDs will have been made for NTSC systems in the USA, then you will need a TV that can display NTSC signals.

One other method that can sometimes work is trying different video channels on your television. If your television has different inputs (maybe one or more scart sockets or other signal/equipment connectors) then your remote control should have a button that allows you to flip between each one - a bit like switching over to the channel that you use for your current DVD watching.
If you do have a button on your remote like that, you can try pressing it to cycle through each of the different video signals to see if your TV has a channel that will display the picture in the correct coloured way.

However if your TV is not made to display NTSC as an option at all (the instruction book should tell you), then you will probably have to get another television that does.

NTSC compatible televisions are very common nowadays, but if it is an older TV, it may be a problem and you may just have to get another television set.

This item was edited on Thursday, 1st January 2009, 21:06