<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 10 Apr 2007, at 18:35, David Campbell wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ben Lancaster wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 10 Apr 2007, at 15:45, Mark Kendall wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On 4/10/07, Ben Lancaster <<A href="mailto:lists@benlancaster.co.uk">lists@benlancaster.co.uk</A>> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#540000">....</FONT> are there any ways of improving PAL over 60Hz <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> VGA?</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The only solution I can see is to get a video card with component TV <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Out; I'm not sure this annoyance merits the £40 expenditure.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">What Samsung LCD are you using?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I have a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>LE32R73BD running at 1360x768<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">on a GeForce4 MX 4000 over VGA and I am very pleased with playback.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>LE23R41B @ 1360x768_60 via FX5200</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On 10 Apr 2007, at 21:44, ryan patterson wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="">What issues do you have with PAL playback at 60Hz? I've played many PAL recordings on my old NTSC TV at 60Hz and on my new HDTV at 1080p 60Hz. I've never noticed any significant problem with doing this. <BR clear="all"></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Playback is generally very good, it's difficult to describe the exact problem, but fast moving scenes or panning are just very very slightly jittery I suppose. The problem is because Xv has to duplicate 10 frames every second (assuming PAL and Bob 2x) in order to turn 50fps to 60fps in order to match the TV.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">It's by no means a show-stopper, and to be honest I hadn't noticed it until I compared it with MS MCE on a friend's 26" Samsung TV with v.similar hardware. It turns out his is running via DVI -> HDMI and at 50Hz. I guess now that I know it <I>should</I> be better, I'm struggling not to notice it!</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ben</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>