I'm looking at what I think is a PAL-60 tape. Does such a thing even exist? I.e., are there VCRs that record PAL-60?

Anyway, I think my All in Wonder doesn't like it because it's coming from a PAL 50 VCR. The catch is, the PAL 50 VCR is a "multisystem VCR", so can also play NTSC tapes (so either NTSC straight through or also converted to NTSC-443).

Setting the card to NTSC results in a picture, but it's B&W, distorted and seems like it's only playing one out of the two fields or something. Really garbage.

Setting the card to PAL-B (or any of the 50 hz pals) results in one, maybe two frames, and then it quits. The image looks slightly squished (vertically).

Setting it to PAL-60 gets the same thing as PAL 50, but with a very squashed one or two frames.

This was all well and good until I downloaded DScaler (I read some of the threads on capturing PAL-60 here) and tried it out. After fiddling with the settings a little bit (basically just turned off auto film/video detection) and set the card to PAL-B, something remarkable happened: the video played.

It seemed to be still slightly squished vertically, but I was excited, because I could capture that video and resize it in vdub and wham, "PAL-60" video from a PAL-50 multisystem VCR.

Too bad when I changed the video mode again, I could never get it to do it again. I reset DScaler, reset all the settings, and it still wouldn't do it. I can only assume it was some kind of fluke with the card, that I happened to hit it right at the right time or something.

Anyway, I guess what I'm asking is this: does anyone have experience with this wacky situation (PAL 50 multisystem VCR) or AiW cards and could tell me how to more directly manipulate the card so I can capture this, even if it's slightly squished like I saw earlier? Not having to buy a PAL-60 VCR would be so great.

Thanks in advance!