Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
No red color via component - what's wrong?
I really want to love this machine but when I hooked it up via component connectors the red color was missing, so everything looked blue. Regular AV connectors did not have this problem but  I have a digital TV so I want to use component video connectors only. First I thought the component wires were faulty, so I returned the wires to Radio Shack and bought the Monster brand connectors. It did the same thing - blue pictures no matter which movies I played. So I thought my TV must be defective (it's a Syntax Olivia 27\\" brand new). But since returning a TV was a lot more troublesome, I decided to try a different DVD from a friend instead in case it was the DVD that was bad. I tried a Sony progressive DVD and the blue color was gone! Now i knew it was the Philip DVD's fault. I then bought another one of this DVD from my local Target store thinking that the same problem was highly unlikely to exist in both machines and boy was I wrong! The red color was again missing! It was so strange that this highly rated DVD could have an obvious color problems and nobody here mentioned it! I later returned the Philips and bought a new Sony with no problem whatsoever. Perhaps I ignored some essential steps in configuring the machine but I couldn't find out any such info in the manual. If anyone of you think I made a mistake in someway please let me know.