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Does anyone have any hints/tips on this?

I`ve got a fairly old TV so the only way I`m getting a colour picture on NTSC discs is by using the RGB output on my player, and then my TV doesn`t deal with the NTSC format having fewer lines in it and outputs a slightly squished picture. It does cope with the 60frames a second tho.

It`s not HUGELY noticable, like 4:3 pulldown you can easily miss it, but a solution would be nice if anyone has one!

Player`s a Sony735 if that helps any. Tv`s ancient.

Cheers!

Use PAL60 if you`ve got that option on the Sony.

Dropping NTSC to PAL loses one in five frames (going from 30/sec to 35/sec) and this tends to cause "jerks".

PAL60 is a half-way house, i.e. it`s 60Hz, 30 frames/sec PAL.

So if you put your player on PAL 60 (pseudo pal on my Aiwa 370) it won´t jerk at all??? Or will it jerk a little bit??? I hate the jerking on my telly!

It`ll still jerk - PAL60 still uses 60fps so it will still include the repeated frames present in the NTSC signal which make it jerky.

Keep it on PAL50 given the option! Which I don`t have....

>"So if you put your player on PAL 60 (pseudo pal on my Aiwa 370) it won´t jerk at all??? Or will it jerk a little bit??? I hate the jerking on my telly!"

Easier solution for you David. Set the "Pal/NTSC/Auto" switch to Pal instead of Auto.
Should cure your problem, Quasi Pal is not enabled on mine, my telly`s crap and I get no jerking whatsoever!!


Jimbo!:oÞ

>Easier solution for you David. Set the "Pal/NTSC/Auto" switch to Pal instead of Auto.
Should cure your problem, Quasi Pal is not enabled on mine, my telly`s crap and I get no jerking whatsoever!!

Is that standard for most players?
I`m using the Alba DVD 103 with an old tele and it has exactly the same option.
I`ve just ordered a R1 disc to test it - I`m thinking it should work because I can watch R2 discs in NTSC (b/w) if I want, so the region has neglible effect on output.
I hope it works anyway. :-)

I have tried it all, but it´s probably my old telly! I´ve read that if you play reg1(ntsc) discs on an old telly in pal50 you will always have a small jerking problem??!?? It´s no big problem, but it is a little bit annoying!