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TV color too bright (whites and light colors look washed out)?

Let me first explain that my TV is from cerca 1988 (we're talking dials, faux wood paneling, etc) and is hooked up to my cable and DVD/VCR combo via an external device-thing (I know, not really technical. It's a box with 4 different ports to hook up the red/yellow/white cables. Thus, I can hook up to 4 devices to my old TV).

Everything worked great until I recently hooked up my region-free DVD player to the TV as well. Now, when using the cable or combo player, the color is too bright. Whites and pastels are so bright that it's hard to differentiate between white and yellow or pink. However, when using the region-free DVD player, the color is perfect; there's nothing wrong.

Were there problems with all 3 devices, I'd obviously assume there was something wrong with my old TV. But since the problem lies with 2 of the 3 devices, I'm stumped. Adjusting the TV's colors and brightness doesn't fix the problem. Like I said, everything was perfectly fine until I hooked up the new DVD player.

I've tried switching around where the devices are plugged in to see if there was a problem with the hook-ups or wires, but the same problem persists. I've tried unplugging the new region-free player (as hooking that up seems to have triggered the problem) but even after doing that, the too-bright color stays.

So, to sum it all up, the color on my region free DVD player is perfect while the color on my DVD/VCR combo and cable is too bright and washed out. Adjusting the TV's color, contrast, and brightness fixes nothing. What the hell is going on?

Update:

Oh, and I should add that I'm not looking to buy a new TV. Mine works perfectly well (plus, 90% of what I watch are non-widescreen, grainy, old, B/W movies) and I can't really afford a new one.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Very strange.

    I would have expected the problem to be approximately the opposite of what it is.

    Because this sort of thing requires hands-on examination

    of the equipment and the control settings,

    it's not likely that you'll get a solution to the problem on Y!A.

    You may need the help of a home theater installer.

  • 4 years ago

    Your eyes have cones and rods lining the decrease back on the retina. Your lens focuses the easy on the decrease back of your retina form of like a action picture digital camera. The rods see greater often than not black and white. Cones can see colour. There are 3 categories of cones, ones that see purple, blue, and yellow. So some thing purple might mirror the easy of the ideal suited frequency (the frequency equivalent to purple easy) to stimulate those cones on your eye that are delicate to that frequency (purple). so some distance as gold is worried, some easy is absorbed and a few is meditated. The meditated easy is a mix of frequencies that corresponds to gold, needless to say greater often than not yellow. i do no longer think of it concerns how small slightly gold is, it is going to mirror and soak up easy interior the comparable way.

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