• Why is the picture on the TV black-white?
• If I let my player be modified, does it also play CD-R`s?
• What is region-coding?
• I have bought a DVD-player from another country, can you modify these players also?
• What is RCE?
• What are CGMS en Macrovision?

Why is the picture on the TV black-white?
The reason is that your TV does not support NTSC-playback. Most regionfree discs and all region 1 discs use the american NTSC-videosystem If your DVD player has a Scart connector with RGB support, then your TV can playback in colour, you have to set the video settings of the DVD player to RGB.

If I let my player be modified, does it also play CD-R`s?
If your player does not support playback of CD-R`s, then after our modification it still doesnt play CD-R`s.
The problem you encounter here is caused by the type of laser used in your DVD-player, it is made for reading DVD only.
This red laser light does not reflect enough on a CD-R. The Player must have a dual-laser pickup(one for CD-CDR and one for DVD-DVDR)

What is region-coding?
The world is divided in 6 regions

1. Amerika en Canada
2. Europe, South Afrika and Japan
3. South East Asia inclusif Hong Kong
4. Latin Amerika en Australia
5. Russia, the rest of Asia and Afrika
6. China
A disc from a region other than region 2 will normally not play in a DVD-player bought in europe, and will show a region-error. You will find the region-code on the backside of the DVD-player.

I have bought a DVD-player from another country, can you modify these players also?
This depends on the video-standard used in that country.
The most common Standards are PAL and NTSC. To check if your player is PAL-compatible, you have to have a regionfree(ALL) disc, wich is recorded in PAL-standard(this information you can find on the DVD-disc). If you do check and the player gives a "wrong type of disc error", then it is not possible to modify this player. The reason is missing hardware for PAL-playback in your player.
A second problem are the displays of portable DVD-players, they are often only NTSC-compatible, so you will see a scrolling picture during playback of PAL-discs.

What is RCE?
RCE stands for "Region Code Enhancement" and is a protection yet only found on american(region 1)discs, wich are introduced in Oktober 2000. The Company`s "Columbia, Warner and MGM" are mainly making these kind of discs, today there are +/-50 pieces around and the number is still growing.
Our modifications play these discs without any problems.

What are CGMS en Macrovision ?
CGMS is a digital copy protection, wich you can find on almost every DVD disc. DVD-recorders are checking for this CGMS signal and refuse to record the video signal if it is protected with it. VCR`s are analog systems and ignore the digital CGMS signals, herefore the industry uses the Macrovision protection wich puts distortion in the videosignal, so that normal viewing of a recording is not posible anymore.
For own use(!)we developed the macromaster, wich filters these signals out of the video-signal.