Heh, well it's more meant as a gentle prod at SS to do things right and a reassurance that the end user can't really do a whole lot to fix things themselves.
Two things will mitigate the issue though.
- Use something like the advanced timing control panels or powerstrip to set as close to the native frame rate as possible.
- Or select a video monitor refresh rate where the rate is an integer multiple of the original video rate as possible.
That is; 60hz will work better than 75Hz when showing 59.94 fields/s ntsc video but of course some monitors make that look too flickery to watch as the phosphor persistance is too low. you can go up to 90hz perhaps on some monitors which gets you close to 3x the 29.97 frame rate but we're starting to get away from the ideal again with recurring jumpyness.
I personally just run at 60hz and it looks fine on my projector
I also don't waste my htpc/projector bulb on watching news shows with tickers so I don't notice the jerkiness too much.