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I got the Hyundai from Deals Direct the other day. All was going swimmingly until I tried an R1 DVD after doing the multi-region hack.

I popped in my R1 of Donnie Darko and changed the video output setting to NTSC. However when I did this the screen turned a putrid shade of green.

This happens on the players startup screen, the movie menus and the film itself.

I always switched to NTSC on my old Minato G1 for R1 discs and never had a problem.

Please help! Am I missing something simple? I haven`t had much time to try to solve it as I`ve been night shift :-(

It`s only when I switch to RGB output that it does this, and only with the NTSC setting. My PAL discs play perfectly.

Any ideas? Anyone experienced this themselves with the Hyundai?

This item was edited on Saturday, 3rd May 2003, 17:48

Anyone have any ideas?

:-(

Well I`ve spent a bit of time with the machine and I am VERY unimpressed.

It outputs green NTSC RGB on my 32" Hitachi, I`ve tried it on my new 28" Panasonic and it refuses to output ANY RGB signal :^( And unlike the Hitachi TV the Panasonic doesn`t seem to have any way of manually selecting RGB, which means my third party Gamecube scart will probably only output composite quality, I haven`t tried it yet though.

My old Samsung 807 which I bought in 1999 automatically outputs RGB on my Panasonic TV. It even says so in the corner of the screen. It says "AV1/RGB" whereas with the Hyundai it just says "AV1" and clearly isn`t an RGB quality picture.

It just isn`t doing what I want it to do. On this evidence I can see me keeping my Minato G1 which was in the living room and which I`ve had practically no problems with. I take it Deals Direct won`t take the Hyundai back unless there is something "wrong" with it?

Maybe I`m not giving it a chance but really shouldn`t any DVD player worth its salt output RGB automatically if selected AND not turn the picture green with NTSC RGB?

I`m not a happy camper...

This item was edited on Sunday, 4th May 2003, 21:17

my 420a ok on my grundig fine arts tv rgb switches ok pic spot on r1 discs fine etc

Do you set R1 discs to NTSC?

nah does it auto

I`ve tried doing it both ways (leaving it to Auto switch and manually switching to NTSC) and it still shows a green picture through RGB scart.

On this evidence, it`s going back :-/

BTW My player is the Hyundai 320A.

Well I just got a loan of my Dad`s 320A and it`s exactly the same. NTSC + RGB = Green screen. He rarely watches anything other than R2 or VCDs so he won`t be too bothered but either mine will be going back or I`ll flog it.

So if you`re tempted by the Direct Deal Hyundai offer but want to watch your R1 NTSC discs in RGB *DON`T BOTHER!* You`ll only be disppointed!

As soon as Jeremy Beadle has finished sucking the other blokes left nut, he can have a go at my right one :-(

So you`ve paid £50 for a multi-region dvd player plus 4 films (admittedly crappy) and you`re bitching about NTSC/RGB output... NTSC is an american standard whereas RGB is only found on European players (the US goes for component video). My first dvd player cost 9 times this so sit back and enjoy the show.