I have a Magnavox MWR20V6 and when I play a DVD it is only in black and white

When was the last time you ran the "head cleaning" tape in the machine? As tape collects dust and dirt - it gets deposited on the recording and playback heads. This ruins playback and recording quality. Also, since tape is magnetic - they tend to magnetize the heads, too (just like reel to reel, 8 track & cassette player / recorders). Demagnetizing them will help too. Here are links to both products:

head cleaner

head demagetizer

all dvd players are region free when you first buy them, they set the region themselves, after 5 dvd's have been played on them. So if you had a european dvd player and played 5 USA dvd's on it , it would lock to the USA region and you would be unable to play european dvd's on it. Exactly what a friend did many years ago when he bought a load of american dvd films from someone and played them on his brand spanking new dvd player :)

Check through, the settings of Magnavox and do the similar region
settings in your other DVD.

In short to say, recording format and the play back format does not
match. if you corect this through the MENU available, it should be OK.

May be your other DVD is old model!

I have a Magnavox MWR20V6 and I am attempting to record a Tv show but when I play it back the recording is just black.

alot of times when the video cord gets pinched it will go to black and white you just have to replace it if that dont work. then its one of the machines.

It sounds like you may have your vcr connected via composite cable. Check the back of your VCR and follow the cable to your TV. You should see a Red, White and Yellow connection on both ends. The Yellow connector is the video.

Here is an image to help you find it:

on my magnavox mwr20v6 i cant record my vhs to dvd i get black screen every time and my DVD are new and I just open my magnavox after a long long time and ecsup for get my VHS record to DVD it is fine I would like to fix this issue :(

I purchased a Magnavox MWD7006 and need to have it play in Db5.1 KOSS Entertainment system; thus far only plays in stereo; anyone know what I'm missing? I'm using a S-Video cable.

Sorry Gary, Forgot to put the link on: http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=12&threadid=6530