thanks for replying.
'no text' meant no text in the body of my email - sometimes people think you've pressed
submit before you've intered the message
I did scale my pages as DVD format in the chapter properties.
Someone who knows about video told me that it is to do with contrast at the edges of the text and the way the screen refreshes??
He agrees that combinations of background and foreground colour can emphasise the flicker. In his video system he says he blurs text slightly to minimise the effect, although I must say that the text on my pages when rendered to video is pretty soft.
It may be an old monitor issue, and I know we should replace it with an LCD screen....