Problems in Capturing NTSC VHS With a PAL MSI nVidia Personal Cinimea FX5200

I live in Europe which as most of you know uses PAL format. Most European VHS machines will play NTSC VHS in a format caled PAL60. The FX5200 Personal Cinema card will only play a PAL60 format color NTSC VHS tape in black and white. Which means that in order to convert NTSC VHS to digital video, you have to have an NTSC VHS player in order to input a "pure" NTSC signal to the card.
Having purchased an NTSC video in the US on a visit there, I now encounter the problem that you see in the image I have posted here.
This was a oddly enough black and white film that I have captured but the effect is the same with a color film. The image will "blink" to a sort of negitive form of the image.
It only covers the left half of the image and this occurs regardless of which recording software I use. I tried deinterlacing but that didn't help either. It usually occurs at the start of a recorded VHS recording and flashes for only a second but it can persist through an entire VHS recording.
If I run the VHS directly into my TV set, which can play NTSC video, this doesn't occur. When I record, I use the iuVCR recording programand compress the avi files withTMPEGnc. But if I use the software that came with the card, the samething happens.
Does anyone have any ideas?

i am getting same problem but i only get this problem when i have tv out enabled this is happenning in other programmes as well like nvdvd and power dvd . powere dvd is not recognissing graphics card in tv out mode when hardware accelaration is activated. i have tried all possible setting s and will not sort problem out. in standered 1 monier mode everything is fine no stuttering or picture problems. i think it is driver issue. :O

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