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Dave Moll · 13th Jun 2017, 8:07 am

Even at baseband video, as presented by a SCART (or whatever) connection, there's no way it's going to make sense of the 625-line signal.

Although I have never tried it myself, with earlier VHS machines it was apparently possible to record and play back 405-line content owing to the way they recorded a full field (or was it frame?) in a single stripe (diagonally) across the tape, but I understand that later machines tried to be more clever by introducing processes specific to 625-line that messed up this quirk. As far as I know, there is no similar loophole with recording to DVD.

13th Jun 2017, 8:07 am	#3
Dave Moll Dekatron Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: West Cumbria (CA13), UK Posts: 6,127	Re: DVD on 405 tv without converter? Even at baseband video, as presented by a SCART (or whatever) connection, there's no way it's going to make sense of the 625-line signal. Although I have never tried it myself, with earlier VHS machines it was apparently possible to record and play back 405-line content owing to the way they recorded a full field (or was it frame?) in a single stripe (diagonally) across the tape, but I understand that later machines tried to be more clever by introducing processes specific to 625-line that messed up this quirk. As far as I know, there is no similar loophole with recording to DVD. __________________ Mending is better than Ending (cf Brave New World by Aldous Huxley)