Yes, I know what PAL60 is. The term PAL60 might be confusing to many because it's not 625 lines PAL but with 60Hz (such thing does not exist), it is, like NTSC, 525 lines and 59.94 Hz but with PAL color modulaton (you've said it already). Which also means it does not exist with RGB-Scart.
However, the point is: different DVD-Players handle this matter differently.
There are players that (I'd say the majority, especially budget ones), when set to "PAL", always output standard PAL (not PAL60), doing a on-the-fly basic normconversion with moderate to very bad results (BUT: any PAL TV is capable of displaying that of course). Some players don't and will output PAL60 instead (like yours) which will at least display in color on any PAL TV but if the TV does not support a 525 lines/59.94 Hz mode at all, then this does not help too much. Even TVs that don't support such mode might show a squashed picture with color (squashed because they are using the same amplitude they use for 625 lines) which can be ok to watch, and others may show a rolling picture for example and are totally unwatchable. I have encountered both.
@Chibs Yes, they are correct. You can encode the PAL version at 25 fps progressive, encoding it interlaced does work as well but reduces encoding efficiency.
Last edited by TheSkiller; 14th November 2011 at 20:47.
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