LD to DVD

[wlv55]

I have been trying to tranferring LD to DVD using a Panasonic recorder but so far without success, The problem is I keep on seeing "Flashings"at the bottom of the screen. I have switched the system from PAL to NTSC , the movies turned into a B&W without flashing but with rather poor quality. I do not know what is the cause of this but I guess it could be that I am using a PAL DVD recorder which is not compatible with the NTSC signals.
Anyone knows how to solve this problem, Please help. Thanks

[Marvingj]

You just nail it, get a NTSC/PAL Conversion box. Should be cheap now....

[lordsmurf]

Don't switch to NTSC, record as PAL.

[Grain]

I believe LD's were only NTSC, so your best bet would be to record in NTSC if you possible, avoid converting if you can like lordsmurf says.

[wlv55]

Thanks everyone.

Are there two types of DVD recorders ? Are US amd Canada using NTSC DVD recorder whilst Asian region using PAL DVD recorder. I can record the movie as PAL but there are some distubing " tracking" appeared at the bottom of the screen. Both LD and NTSC video tapes sharing the same problem. When I discovered the problem, I went to "set-up" and switched the PAL to NTSC, the "tracking" disaapeared but the image is in B & W.
Does this means that I have to get a NTSC DVD recorder to convert my LDs and NTSC video tapes to DVD ?

[edDV]

I've only seen NTSC players that play only NTSC discs and visa versa but not a PAL player that also plays NTSC. I wonder if such a player would play NTSC discs as PAL60?

Laserdisc recorded the composite NTSC or PAL signal. Conversion to DVD requires a Y/C separation and decode to YCbCr components.

[jman98]

I believe LD's were only NTSC, so your best bet would be to record in NTSC if you possible, avoid converting if you can like lordsmurf says.

NOT correct. PAL laserdiscs were made for Europe. To further complicate matters, the manufacturers were nice enough to make almost all (and it may actually have been all, but if not, it was very close to all) PAL laserdisc players as multistandard players, which meant that they would also play NTSC laserdiscs. edDV's guess that they played NTSC laserdiscs are PAL60 is reasonable, but lacking such a player I can only guess. The original poster needs to figure out whether he has NTSC or PAL laserdiscs and living in Asia, my guess is that they are probably NTSC as Hong Kong, another PAL country in the region, used NTSC for its laserdiscs. The laserdisc sleeves and discs will tell if they are NTSC or PAL. Once he has figured out what he's got, he needs to record in the exact same format to DVD.

[Grain]

Once he has figured out what he's got, he needs to record in the exact same format to DVD.

Exactly. One other thing you should check wlv55 is your s-video cable (if that's what your using), if it's bad, you could have the B&W scenario. If your only using composite cables, that's not the problem.

[edDV]

Once he has figured out what he's got, he needs to record in the exact same format to DVD.

Exactly. One other thing you should check wlv55 is your s-video cable (if that's what your using), if it's bad, you could have the B&W scenario. If your only using composite cables, that's not the problem.

Since Laserdisc is natively composite, it is one case where S-Video gives inferior results unless the player is recent. The Y/C separators in 90's vintage laserdisc players were awful.

Use a capture device with a good comb filter Y/C separator.
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