Dvd plays ok on computer, no colour when played on TV

I have just burned a DVD for the first time. The project was edited in imovie first and has stills plus video. It looks fine in the preview and plays fine on my imac but when I play it through my sony dvd player it looses the colour and plays black and white.
any ideas?
Hutch

Another possibility is, the TV that you have has all the color taken out. To find out I would see if the TV plays anything else in color. If it plays cable TV input and the input from the DVD Player in black and white then the problem is probably a setting in the TV. But if the black and white problem is only occurring with the input from the DVD Player the problem is either 1)Mac-onga is right and the plugs are put in the wrong inputs on the back/front of the TV OR 2)there is a black and white setting on the DVD player.
Hope this helps,
TC

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