It's god's way of telling you that you're supposed to go to bed early tonight because you're really damned exhausted.

Or that you shouldn't purchase Brad Pitt movies. ::nods::

I need to get a paid account, so I can become "punkalicia8293".

1 & 2- God's plan worked then, didn't it?
3- I never said he wasn't...only that you're not supposed to spend valuable money on his movies that you can be using to buy me presents.
4- Everything kinda freaks you out, Holly. I needed a new username since some evildoer usurped luvrhino. Fortunately, punkalicia3275 wasn't taken. Hopefully, this one will remain unique to me.

our dvd player - which is as janky as they come, granted - does the same thing. someone had some reason for me, but i forget. they blamed the dvd itself, anyway.

I was hoping that wouldn't be an issue... what you described before sounded like damaged discs. Ah well, you could simply run a standard RCA video cable from the DVD's video out into your TV by placing one of these (or something similar - make sure you match up male to female, etc.) on the end. Two bucks. Try Radio Shack.

Is the image coming across like as if it was a really old video that had been copied a whole bunch of times? and does it work fine for about 3 seconds then flipp then do the colors? If so it is probably the macrovision copy protection.
You can get around with, as you mentioned, a modulator or do the much better thing and get a video that strips macrovision. Of course that's not what they say it is, it is where the video re encodes the signal before firing it at the tv I believe.

Macrovision sits in a control band which a tv ignores but a normal video interprets. It says "hey this scene is way high in contrast, compensate for it" and so on. A signal received by a device which has that compensator will then "fix" the signal and send it on "fixed". A good vcr however ignores this band and works it out for itself. Phillips make a lot of these vcr's I have one and will fire you the model if you are interested.

I read your LJ... I can't watch it. It flips, the color fades in and out.

How do you DO that???