AVI picture through Philips DVD player is in black and white

Was watching Breaking Bad season 1 in my sisters DVD player last night, the television is a Thomson HD Ready model and the dvd player is a Philips player with a USB connection. I put season 1 and 2 of breaking bad on a usb stick, but after watching 3 episodes of season one the picture is in black and white while it plays in colour through the PC, the picture also plays in a compressed format with bars to the side of the picture, no amount of zooming on any of the remotes will make the picture wider. How do I get the picture to play in colour? Any help will be much appreciated and mods if this is the wrong forum please feel free to move it to the correct one.