[Adam]

I really don't like those retrace lines either. I have found that if you adjust the vert. hold, you can sometimes get them down to just 2 or 3 at the top of the screen. A while back I put up a modification to an electrostatic Motorola set (under "how can I tell if my 7JP4 is dead?" - in the B&W forum) which gets rid of these lines on those sets. It worked on my TS-4J. But most of the time I just wind up watching these "bad" DVDs on my Zenith System 3, as the 7JP4 in my Motorola is weak.
I mostly like to watch old TV shows on DVD on my old TVs, and at least so far most of these have been free of the dreaded retrace lines. Can you tell from the box if a DVD has the copy protection or not, I would like to avoid picking up anymore of these DVDs if I could.