Hi VCD Experts,

I have a Sony DVP-S735D DVD Player (multiregion) that supports both PAL and NTSC VCD's. The problem I'm having is when I burn 352x240 NTSC VCD's with Nero 5.5 and play them back on the DVP-S735D a portion of the top and bottom of the picture are being chopped off. The problem seems very similar to the problem described in the VCDFAQ that can be experienced by NTSC players when playing back 352x288 PAL VCD's, where the Sony players will chop 24 lines off the top and the bottom of the picture, but I just can't figure out why when playing a NTSC VCD on all NTSC equipment, I would be getting the top and bottom chopped off my picture. It is afterall, a smaller picture.

The VCD I'm burning seems to be compliant, and when played back on my PC using QuickVCD, there is no chop off. Any suggestions? Is it my DVD player's crappy support for VCD? Is it Nero not encoding the DVD correctly? Or is something wrong with the original VCD MPEG files? I did test a commercial PAL VCD and there was no chop off. I don't have a commercial NTSC disc for comparison.

Any advice appreciated, I'm considering just going out and buying a cheap NTSC VCD player to get around this problem, but want to be sure it's not something I can fix by re-encoding the VCD or using different burning software.