Black & White picture

Yeah, PAL vs. SECAM, second thing I thought of. Check that.

Are you using the S-video output? S-video passes the luma (brightness) and sync on one pin, chromiance (color) on another, so a bad cable or bent pin will cause similar symptoms, but in this case, the picture will be nice and stable, just monochrome.

If using component video out, you probably have some of the cables mixed up.

wrong system on TV selected or TV not correctly tuned

There can one of two problems here. Either your DVD player's output is set to NTSC and you are attempting to play it through a PAL (European) TV, or you are perhaps using the SVHS output incorrectly. The solution is to access the player's setup menu and ensure the video output is set to your standard (PAL or NTSC). Hope this helps!

This worked for me push your n/p botten to NTSC then go into setup and put your generl SPDIF output to SPDIF/RAW and then go over to video and make sure your compontent is off hope this helps

I have the same problem or just did 10 minutes ago.
What I did was go to "setup" on my remote. Then I went to "Video" and "TV System". It was on "Pal" so I changed it to "NTSC". I probably accidently hit a wrong button lastnight when I was lowering the volume or something on my DVD.

Hope this helped.

I have a us logic dvd player and cannot get it to play in color. Everything is ok other wise.
What now?

I have a us logic dvd player and cannot get it to play in color. Everything is ok other wise.
What now?

Tonya: Just thought it would be helpful for me to note that on the current (12/07) range of U.S. Philips-branded players (the four-digit ones like 5982, 5140, 3160, etc), you can NOT change the TV type in the setup menu like you used to on the 642 and earlier players. The ONLY option is NTSC. Presumably, Philips disabled the choosability of NTSC/PAL/MULTI to make the players more idiot-proof (since most purchasers of the US models will be using them on NTSC sets). I notice that the UK version of the 5982 (DVP5980) retains this functionality (it's in the manual), so this is clearly something the player SHOULD still be able to do, but something that has been disabled (via firmware) at the factory.