legal VHS to DVD transger on Panasonic DMR-E30

[uklad24]

I live in the UK and have a Panasonic DMR-E30 that is capable of recording in both PAL and NTSC. I have a relative in the US who sent me their wedding Video, which they wanted transferred onto DVD. I have been authoring for a while now, and because my VCR is capable of playing NTSC cassettes, I assumed the transfer would be simple I also have a relatively new Panasonic 28" Widescreen TV, which according the manual, can display NTSC also.

Right, I hook the VCR up to the DVD recorder via SCART (AV1 to AV1). With the recorder set to PAL (default), I get a colour picture on the TV screen, but there is a huge band of srambled picture at the bottom of the screen. So I change the recorder to accept NTSC, now, the picture clears up perfectly only it's now in black and white with a slight grain to it. I've gone through the instruction manuals with a fine tooth-comb, but I must be missing the obvious. You see if I hook up the VCR to a really old TV set we have in the house, it displays the NTSC picture with no hassles at all. I must be doing something wrong if I can't get up-to-date equipment to display NTSC properly when it's fully capable. Anyone have any ideas?................

[donpedro]

Try this

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=640509

I wonder if he go it fixed somehow

[darkstar]

I ran into the same problem when I was trying to back up NTSC VHS tapes. The method I used was ugly but it worked.

What you will need:
VCR which will play NTSC tapes (output PAL60, pseudo Pal)
Cheap PC TV capture card (BT878)
Dscaler Download
Graphics card with TV out
DVD recorder
Cables

Run the video output of VCR (composite/s-video) to the cheap TV capture card in your PC. Use Dscaler to display the PAL60 signal from your VCR full screen. Use the TV output of your graphics card to send the signal to your DVD recorder. I hooked the audio output of the VCR straight to the DVD recorder with out lip sync problems; you might have to experiment a little.

[uklad24]

cheers Darkstar! I was about to buy a TV tuner this week anyway, so I'll have a go and see what happens

[RabidDog]

you shouldnt worry what it looks like on the TV as long as you are doing an NTSC to ntsc xfr. ALso you didnt say that you were setting your tv to NTSC.Do the xfr and I bet it comes out all right when you play it.

newer isnt always better. more options can lead to more problems.

[sikki_nixx]

darkstar:

This is a very good idea but I ran into a problem (as usual)

On the computer the pal60 signal looks really nice in dscaler...
but when I output it to the tv it doesn't run as smooth as on the
computer... I know my TV can handle both PAL and NTSC well
so it can't be a problem with the TV... I just think this is so
wierd and it shouldn't be possible... It sounds logical that the
picture on the tv should be exactly the same as on the computer....

Any idea what could be wrong? I have a Nvidia card and it has
worked fine so far...