I have a DVD player connected to an LCD TV via SCART, but no matter how I set things the frame flickers/jitters. 1080 resolution.?

Actually, SCART doesn't support anything better than 576i. It's a baseband video connection. It doesn't get close to HD Ready or Full HD, but that doesn't really matter since DVDs aren't much better resolution anyway.

If SCART is the only connection method available, then there's a couple of things you can check and perhaps change that will improve the picture you're getting:

First, if the TV has more than one SCART socket, check in the TV manual* or on the back of the set to see if your SCART cable is connected to a socket that accepts RGB. Then go in to the DVD player manual and make sure that the SCART output is set to "RGB" rather than PAL or Composite or AV. This is because RGB is a much cleaner signal and your TV will have less work to do with that.

Better still, if your player and TV both have Component sockets (confusingly coloured Red Green and Blue even though they're not RGB), and the player can output at 576p (see the manual*) or higher resolution, then use these for picture. You'll also need to hook up some phono/RCA cables (red & white) for sound.

DVDs are encoded at 576p (UK discs) and 480p (US discs). Sending the signal out to the TV at the resolution it was encoded at is the optimum picture quality from the player. The rest of the picture quality chain is then affected by how well the TV up-scales the image to the 1080p panel resolution and the TVs picture menu settings.

If the player has HDMI out, then use that instead.

Once you have the best picture out of the player, it's time to have a look at the TVs picture menu settings:

If you are using the Dynamic mode or any picture menu setting where contrast is near maximum and the sharpness is turned up and all the little "picture enhancement" settings are switched on then that's what's frucking up the picture. Those things are mostly garbage.

Put the TV into User mode or Film mode or Cinema mode..... whichever setting allows you to turn this junk off and make some proper picture improvements.

*download a copy from the manufacturer's web site if you lost your paper copy.

Keep in mind that DVD are only in 480P. To be able toget 1080P which is only avalable from a blu ray disc movie or a video game. Some player will upconvert the signal to 1080P but youneed touse an HDMI cable. Your tv will only display what it is being feed and will not up convert the signal to a higher resolution. Hope this will help you out.

SCART is not really designed to work at 1080i or 1080p resolution. It struggles at 720i and is only really happy at up to around 576 lines. The simple solution is to switch to using a HDMI cable!