Originally posted by: Gavin-
I got a copy of this set last week. I'm quite impressed. I was quite surprised that the discs work on my Playstation2! Some criticism: Even on my very small 4:3 TV the picture quality has a slight jagged look of horizontal aliasing, and the frame rate doesn't seem very smooth. But I attribute that to the fact that my PAL TV and Playstation2 are broadcasting the picture in NTSC. There is probably a loss of quality when my PAL TV snaps into its secondary NTSC mode that it wasn't really designed for.
The aliasing you noticed is because the discs don't conform sttrictly to the DVD specification. I have the same problem if I'm using my DVD player in "PAL mode" (which means it uses PAL-60 instead of NTSC for NTSC movies, this makes the picture look better than using NTSC). AFAIK PS2's can only do the one format - ie PAL/PAL-60 but not NTSC. Which could be why you notice the aliasing. I noticed the same thing on a friend's brand new player, so I changed it from "PAL" to "AUTO" and again it was fixed. I got a copy of this set last week. I'm quite impressed. I was quite surprised that the discs work on my Playstation2! Some criticism: Even on my very small 4:3 TV the picture quality has a slight jagged look of horizontal aliasing, and the frame rate doesn't seem very smooth. But I attribute that to the fact that my PAL TV and Playstation2 are broadcasting the picture in NTSC. There is probably a loss of quality when my PAL TV snaps into its secondary NTSC mode that it wasn't really designed for.