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I mistakenly turned Progressive scan mode “ON” on my Zenith Dual DVD VHS combo and I can’t turn it off. It won’t play video, I only get audio. I can’t get the blue screen that reads “Progressive Scan Mode ON” off my television. To my understanding, progressive scan is used for component video or s-video. How do I fix it?

The word collimate is also commonly used in astronomy in another sense, for the process of aligning the optics in a telescope, e.g., aligning the mirrors and/or lenses so as to produce the best possible image.

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Put a disc in the DVD and press play. Pointing the remote at the player, press the STOP key to stop any disc that is playing. Next, press the STOP key again and hold it for five seconds before releasing it. This should turn the Progressive Scan off.

4. How about calling the factory support number or website in the manual. They would certainly know how to solve your problem.

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Collimating light that is diverging from a point can be carried out with a concave mirror (or convex lens) if the curve is just less than enough to focus the light to another point, i.e., at the border between focusing and merely reducing the divergence. A decollimator does the opposite, takes the parallel beams and, e.g., focuses them to a point.

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2. Do you have a friend or neighbor with a progressive scan TV that you could hook your machine to temporarily to change the menu back to interlaced?

Collimate means to align and a collimator is a device that takes light traveling in different directions and makes it all travel in parallel. (The term is also used for a much different instrument that does a similar process for something other than light, e.g., particles.) Collimated light is light traveling in parallel beams rather than spreading or converging, an example being the output of a laser. Such collimation is imperfect and can only be approximated, much as optical images always have limits on their accuracy. Light from distant objects is close to being collimated and the term collimator is used for devices achieving such near-collimation to make objects appear distant, such as in a flight simulator. Light from astronomical point sources, such as stars, is closer to true collimation than the output of any collimator.

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Collimating is used in astronomy optics, such as spectroscopes, which may collimate after the initial dispersal (after the first prism or grating) so the separated wavelength's are "traveling in parallel", to allow physical placement of an additional dispersing device further along the optical path, i.e., to assist in the physical design of the instrument.

I don’t know if anyone is still having this problem, but I too have a Memorex DVD/VHS player combo that was stuck in Progressive scan mode. I tried everything. Then I discovered a single switch on the back side of the player that manually turns PS on and off.

1. Well, does the manual mention anything about a way to reset the machine to the factory default setup? Maybe there’s a small hole in the back panel with a reset button hiding under it.

Oh dear! You got yourself in a pickle. As I understand it you turned on progressive scan in the menu and now you can’t turn it off because you can’t even see the menu? I just love technology!

Chewy, I just did the same thing with my DVD player and I can’t figure out how to turn the progressive scan off – did you have any luck??