My Toshiba Blu Ray player can play back most video formats from an SD card but only in black and white. The files play in colour just fine on other devices. Why would this be?

Ta 🙂

Anyone, no? Come on please don’t let me have to go on the AV websites, they’re scary!

Make sure it’s set to play on a PAL system.

The player or the file Drac? Sorry I know nothing about these things!

It’ll be player could be a setting for play back on the SD side I don’t have a one, this is a memory using other devices and having similar problems.

How is it connected to the TV? Are you using a SCART lead perchance?

Cheers Drac, I’ll have a shufty through the menus and see if anything jumps out 🙂

Yes Cougar, scart lead indeed

Is it an option to use HDMI instead? That’ll fix it (and look a ton better too).

Failing that, get a decent fully-wired SCART.

Basically what’s happening (I think) is that the player is outputting S-video and the TV is expecting composite, so you lose the … chrominance? signal. So you’ll need to put the player in RGB mode and / or upgrade the cable. It might even be that simply telling the TV it’s S-video will fix it.

But really, HDMI. It’s the future.

Sadly our telly is an old skool deep as it is wide type! We only got a blu-ray player because it was cheaper than all the DVD players when we were looking for an new one!

Buggery.

Look for RGB / S-video settings on the player and on the TV, then. Have a play about, just try and remember what you started with (-:

Also, try the other SCART socket on your TV. I remember my old Sony had two inputs, but only the first one allowed RGB (the logo is slightly different next to the socket, has three dots on it).

Just realised I wasn’t clear on something here. I’m offering a suggestion in addition to Drac, not saying he’s wrong.

Now Cougar has asked rather than assumed you’re using HDMI then I’d say that your problem could be the SCART.

This is the weirdest way of agreeing with each other I’ve seen since TJ left. (-:

Steady on we haven’t had a 12 page argument first.