HELP! I've fowled up!

[Pecker]

You might be able to help, irrespective of which DVD player you own.

I have a Pioneer DV-565A (multi-region).

I was showing a friend round the menu options screen the other night, as his mate was having trouble setting something up on his DVD player.

I noticed that one of the options was to switch from Interlaced to Progressive scan, so, being a bloke, I clicked on it to see what would happen.

What happened was that the TV screen went blank (I have the player connected to the TV through RGB scart). So now I have a DVD player set to progressive scan, so I can't see the screen, and because I can't see the screen I can't access the menu to switch it back to interlaced.

D'OH!

I've tried using the s-video out & composite out, but I can't get any picture from those either.

I've also tried leaving it unplugged all day to see if it'd re-set, but I've had no joy.

Can anyone help? I'd prefer to not have the machine re-set in any way which would remove multi-region capability.

Many thanks.

Steve W

[Alun]

This is what it says for a 575, so my be the same.

1 switch player into standby
Using the front panel buttons hold down stop and press standby to turn the unit back on.

this will restore factory defaults.

hope this helps

[pierrev]

Originally Posted by Alun

This is what it says for a 575, so my be the same.

1 switch player into standby
Using the front panel buttons hold down stop and press standby to turn the unit back on.

this will restore factory defaults.

hope this helps

I can confirm that it says the same in the 565a manual though it alters all your settings back to the Factory default - the other method is to switch off and then press STANDBY while holding the |<<<< in - this should switch back to interlace - Page 57 in the manual if you have it

[Pecker]

It's fixed.

Many thanks for your help.

Steve W