> actual motion, but I know there has been some research into using them > for deinterlacing and rate conversion. How expensive are these > NTSC-to-PAL converting players? :) UKP 99, region free. Of course its probably illegal to import one from the free world into the USA. > You mean a PAL feed of CNN? How are you deinterlacing? Are you only > capturing single fields (like 720x288 or even 352x288)? It may be that > 25 fields evenly spaced over the 59.94 fields in an NTSC-second doesn't > screw the text scroll that much, but I'd be surprised. I've done tests at 720x576 and 352x288 and both look ok. If I capture a scrolling scene from an NTSC DVD at 25fps then I see glitchings in the panning which are normally ok, but a slow pan makes unpleasantly visible. Captures done with an Iomega Buz hardware mjpeg board.