[ray4566]

Thanks to all who responded, I did end up converting, along the lines suggested by Julie & Charlie.

I found a program called Handbrake on my Laptop & used that to read in the 30FPS (60Hz) material from the source DVD's & generate MPEG4 files as output, specifying a frame rate of 25FPS.

I was also quite pleased that it allowed me to choose the output bit rate so that I could balance the trade-off between image quality and file size, and the fact that I could build a job queue to automate the process was also quite handy.

The end result was a Data DVD so no fancy Menus available but it suits my purposes and the SR-170 player was quite happy with the format.

It was magic watching 1959 material playing through the old 1957 TV.

The slight frame stutter mentioned by John did appear as expected, although I didn't find it a serious issue on this particular program material.


I also had a very interesting read of the information linked by Graham, quite fascinating learning some of the methods that people have devised.

thanks once again
Ray