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There is no colour on the movie

We just bought a new Samsung LCD TV and it is great. Problem is when we play a movie on the Toshiba DVD player, there is no colour at all. The movie plays just fine, it just doesn't have any colour. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Questions:
1) How are you connecting the DVD player to the LCD TV?
A) Composite Video cable 'RCA yellow end connector'.
B) S-Video cable - This is a round 4 pin connector - carry's the Luminance 'B&W' signal on two of the Right pins and Color on the two other Left pins.
C) Component cables - Red, Green & Blue,

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Make sure you have the cables hook up right. If you are running component mode it takes three for video blue red and white ends. If you are running composite it takes red, white, and yellow.

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