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BigDonkey2 · 08-26-2003, 11:01 PM

sometimes when I play a DVD on my PS2 the lighting gets all fucked up....example:

the movie will start playing and then all the sudden the screen will get really dark....then about a minute or two later it'll go back to being bright...it does this off and on on some if not all my DVDs...whats the problem?

burgerdog · 08-26-2003, 11:34 PM

Macrovision it sounds like. Are you runing your video signal through a VCR or something on the way to the TV?

Aaron0000 · 08-26-2003, 11:41 PM

Yeah, I doubt that is from the PS2

Loup · 08-27-2003, 04:28 AM

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Originally posted by burgerdog
Are you runing your video signal through a VCR or something on the way to the TV?

It's suggested in the Operational Manual that you connect the PS2 directly to your tv or lose some video quality. Could that be your case?

zenmaster10665 · 08-27-2003, 04:32 AM

Is it possible that the movie is in PAL format and you are on an NTSC TV (or vice-versa)?

BigDonkey2 · 08-27-2003, 12:03 PM

yes it is connected through the VCR on its way to the TV. The reason i do that is because my TV doesnt have any outputs.....so i guess im SOL

CityOfAngels · 08-27-2003, 06:03 PM

I was just playing Enter The Matrix and just noticed how much darker it was than playing it at my gf's house. Here I have to hook it through a VCR...hmmmm

burgerdog · 08-28-2003, 03:03 AM

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Originally posted by BigDonkey2
yes it is connected through the VCR on its way to the TV. The reason i do that is because my TV doesnt have any outputs.....so i guess im SOL

Yeah, I don't know a way around it, but that is what macrovision copy protection does to a DVD signal that gets piped through a VCR.

You could try hooking it up w/ a RF cable which would give you a direct line to the TV.

Otherwise I think you are gonna have to live w/ it.

djflish · 08-28-2003, 11:20 AM

Whenever i watch a dvd on my ps2, and there is text on screen, like subtitles, the credits or on menu pages, there is a loud crackling, static type sound.

does anyone know why this is?

08-26-2003, 11:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
BigDonkey2 Insane Location: California	PS2 Problems sometimes when I play a DVD on my PS2 the lighting gets all fucked up....example: the movie will start playing and then all the sudden the screen will get really dark....then about a minute or two later it'll go back to being bright...it does this off and on on some if not all my DVDs...whats the problem?

08-27-2003, 04:32 AM	#5 (permalink)
zenmaster10665 Bokonist Location: Location, Location, Location...	Is it possible that the movie is in PAL format and you are on an NTSC TV (or vice-versa)? __________________ "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." -Kurt Vonnegut

08-28-2003, 11:20 AM	#9 (permalink)
djflish The Mighty Boosh Location: I mostly come out at night, mostly...	Whenever i watch a dvd on my ps2, and there is text on screen, like subtitles, the credits or on menu pages, there is a loud crackling, static type sound. does anyone know why this is? __________________ Europes two great narcotics, Alcohol and Christianity. I know which one I prefer.

08-26-2003, 11:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
burgerdog Tilted Location: All Under Heaven	Macrovision it sounds like. Are you runing your video signal through a VCR or something on the way to the TV?

08-26-2003, 11:41 PM	#3 (permalink)
Aaron0000 Crazy Location: CA	Yeah, I doubt that is from the PS2

08-27-2003, 12:03 PM	#6 (permalink)
BigDonkey2 Insane Location: California	yes it is connected through the VCR on its way to the TV. The reason i do that is because my TV doesnt have any outputs.....so i guess im SOL