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Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

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Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

Post by j2d » Sat Jun 11, 2011 5:15 pm

Just connected my 2 rear DVD screens, connected a AV lead to the TV module so I can play 1 of the DVDs over all 3 screens, and the sound over the stereo, but when I turn the front screen to AV I get the picture but it is scrolling/flickering!

The picture on the 2nd screen is fine.

Any ideas?

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Re: Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

Post by kena » Sat Jun 11, 2011 6:54 pm

Check out the settings, maybe the front is NTSC and rear PAL. I could be wrong though...


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Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

Post by Pewters » Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:34 pm

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Re: Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

Post by Sanj » Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:52 pm

Sorry for the late reply - saw your PM earlier.

Think Pewters has this covered (same happened to him and sorted).

Not uncommon for the front screen to do this and usually it's the video signal strength being presented to the front screen. You'll need a video signal booster, can be had off eBay or one from Pewters if he still has his (know it works).

Make sure you wire it to an ignition positive, so as not to drain the battery.
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Re: Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

Post by j2d » Sun Jun 12, 2011 11:02 am

Sorted! - Just needed to change the settings to NTSC

Thanks again for the help

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Post by kena » Sun Jun 12, 2011 2:12 pm

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Re: Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

Post by Sanj » Sun Jun 12, 2011 7:15 pm

[quote=""j2d""]Sorted! - Just needed to change the settings to NTSC[/quote]

:rofl: Well I was f'ing useless with advice! :rofl:
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Re: Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

Post by jap scrap » Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:02 pm

Mine does this all the time i only have the front screen no other one i cant change any settings because i cant read anything off the screen its scrolling to fast

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Re: Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

Post by kena » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:59 am

[quote=""jap scrap""]Mine does this all the time i only have the front screen no other one i cant change any settings because i cant read anything off the screen its scrolling to fast[/quote]

Do you have any other input to the front screen i.e... DVD player. I have a 100gb media player playing to my front screen on the AV channel. I got this messed up once and couldn't see the screen to change the settings but I found that by pressing a certain button on the remote it scrolled through the options until I got the right one.

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Re: Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

Post by jap scrap » Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:54 pm

i have a dvd player/sat nav any idea what i can do

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Re: Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

Post by kena » Sat Jun 18, 2011 7:55 pm

[quote=""jap scrap""]i have a dvd player/sat nav any idea what i can do[/quote]
I think it will be the DVD. It will be set to a different system to the screen. Either PAL or NTSC and the screen will be the opposite which causes the scrolling as they are incompatible systems. My media player did this when i first had it installed and I couldn't see the menus to change anything. Then I found out that by pressing a certain button the media player remote it changed the setting with each press of the button so i just pressed until they both matched and hey presto everything was fine.
Maybe your DVD will have something similar.

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Re: Front screen is scrolling playing from rear DVD screen

Post by jap scrap » Sat Jun 25, 2011 11:57 am

My dvd player is the standard sat nav system i pulled the head unit out cleaned the ribbon cables pulled the dvd player out could not find anywhere to swap the settings thinking about pulling the tv module out to clean the ribbon cables what button did you keep pushing to sort out these settings

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