I am dubbing my NTSC VCR tapes (family videos) onto the HDD. The picture, when viewed on my PAL TV (I live in Ireland), is really good apart from the bottom section of the picture which is a horizontal line of black and part of picture that was on the TV prior to dubbing.
Is there any thing I can do to correct this?
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The version of the ZV427MG9 sold in the U.S. only supports NTSC video files. Thus it won't play a PAL VHS tape.
If you find a similar version sold in Europe, that would probably play PAL videos. However, if you used the tape to DVD dubbing feature, the DVD would still have the PAL format. I'm not even sure that a video capture device with video conversion software on a computer would do what you want to do.
I wish that I had better news for you.
Cindy Wells
(The video would also matter. If you are trying to convert a commercial video (ex: a movie) to DVD, the dubbing feature doesn't work due to copy protection.)
Hi, Assuming the unit behaves much like a VCR-VCR dubbing setup you may be able to pause the DVD recordig on the fly simply by making sure the function is set to DVD and pressing PAUSE to start/stop recording
Hope this helps
You need either an NTSC DVD recorder (keep in mind that the US has 110 voltage, while Australia does not), or a computer card that supports NTSC. Some video capture cards support both NTSC and PAL (often switchable). Choose good quality, and pay attention to video/sound sync - some bad quality cards loose sync. Once the tapes are transferred to DVD - and keep it native NTSC all the way, they can be played on virtually any PAL DVD player/TV combo. With an NTSC source, it's best NOT to convert to PAL, while with a PAL source in the US, you'd need to convert to NTSC or only show the DVD on a computer (where NTSC/PAL doesn't matter).
I have been able to record down converted HDTV shows on my Panasonic
DMR-EH50 recorder directly to the unit's hard drive and/or directly to
a blank DVD-R disc.
I do not know of any DTV converter box that can provide the proper
codes to the Panasonic DMR-EH50 to allow recording and scheduling of
shows using the unit's built in TV Guide menuing functions (the program recording codes
are essentially VCR Plus codes in the USA and VCR Video codes in the
UK, and this technology was previously owned by TV Guide/Gemstar but
was purchased by Macrovision within the past couple of years.)
When the DMR-EH50 is hooked up to standard RG-59/U coaxial TV cable,
the cable company provides the specific VCR Plus recording codes, as
well as auto setting the time and date information required for the TV
Guide recording schedule menus. The VCR Plus recording codes are sent
via the cable company through the coaxial cable to the end consumer's
recording
device. Since Gemstar's VCR-Plus patents are now owned by Macrovision,
I am not sure of how this works (or will work) for
non-cable/non-satellite customers or if such codes will be made
available by Macrovision to record shows when one receives HDTV signals
(or down converted DTV signals) from an over-the-air antenna.
Though the DMR-EH50 recorder can only record at Standard Definition
(SD) broadcast resolutions, I connect the DMR-EH50 to my High
Definition TV using the three progressive scan YPBPR output cables and switch my HD-TV into the YPBPR mode when I want to watch shows from the DMR-EH50.
YPBPR are the analog video signals carried by three color coded component video cables. The green cable carries the Y
signal; the blue cable carries the PB signal; and the red cable carries the PR signal. The added benefit of using the YPBPR
hookup is that you can 'up convert' a standard DVD disc (non HD Blu-Ray
disc) in progressive scan mode to somethin akin to 720p resolution using the DM-EH50 (or
any other progressive scan DVD player) to get a better quality image on
your HD-TV.
Visually speaking, the same appears to hold true for playback of
programs recorded on the DMR-EH50's hard drive even though down
converted via the DTV converter box, and when played back on an HD-TV
using the YPBPR progressive scan cabling hookup.
I also been able to successfully record programs from the DTV converter
box to the DMR-EH50 recorder in both 16:9 wide screen and 4:3 normal
aspect ratios, but again only in Standard Definition quality.
For NTSC and PAL formats, the correct aspect ratios for any particular
TV (the rectangular height and width of your output resolution for a TV
screen) can usually be setup correctly for most any DTV converter box
by going carefully through the menus on the converter box. Though the
converted DTV often will yield 'better looking TV' than cable, it's
certainly not high definition however, as the purpose of any DTV
converter box is * not * to yield a High Definition digital TV signal
but a lower quality
Standard Definition signal for viewing on older SD-TVs.
We must remember that what is happening here is that (by NTSC USA standards), we are transcoding
(i.e., down converting) an over the air 1920 x 1080p (progressive scan)
High Definition digital broadcast signal, captured by your over the air
antenna, back to a Standard Definition 720 x 480 resolution analog
broadcast signal (the 720 x 480 resolution is a 4:3 aspect ratio.)
It will only high speed dub in the speed it was recorded in. You can dub, for example, SP on your hard drive to SP on a DVD. You cannot dub high speed, for example, SP on your hard drive to LP on a DVD.
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