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using DVD decrypter can that add an encoding issues?
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No. DVD Decrypter does not affect quality in any way. It simply extracts disc content as-is. No change happens to the data.
I'd almost have to see samples. At very least, I need to know what the content is.
A lot of PAL content was originally NTSC material, and when problems are seen, it's generally due to poor conversion. Not from your friend, but from the company that either broadcast it or made the tape/disc.
Some of what your friend says doesn't make any sense. It's too dumbed down, for lack of a better definition. He's not using any accurate video language.
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Yes I can record normal DVD's to the HD recorder and that is how I am recording these programmes.
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I don't really understand this. He copies a DVD to the HD DVR? That doesn't make any sense. That would require playing the DVR to a DVD recorder again, thereby making analog copies of a DVD instead of a digital copy. That's bad. It's like hooking up two VCRs, but with DVD equipment -- it loses a lot of quality going D>A>D instead of D>D.
SCART is sort of like a VGA or component connection in PAL, in case you don't know what that is. A lot of devices just have SCART leads, no composite or s-video. It's being replaced by HDMI, like most NTSC HD equipment.
Are you watching these on your TV set? Or on the computer? Watch them on the computer for true framerate playback. NTSC DVD players will quasi-play, and different players have different quality:
Some ghost, some do not.
Some jerk, some do not.
Some crop the x576 image, some resize it to NTSC x480.
Some alias the resize, some do not.
Some have interlace errors (such as random field order stutters, or visible lines), some do not.
Some vibrate the picture a bit, some do not.
LiteOn and JVC DVD recorders play PAL remarkably well.
