[mythtvnz] Video Motion Blur

[Steven Ellis]

David Zanetti wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 21:43 +1200, Steven Ellis wrote:
>> Anyone notice that compared with LiveTV, VCR or DVD there always appears
>> to be a hint of motion blur with computer playback on TVs or monitors.
>> I've tried all kinds of things to minimise this but its still present. I
>> was beginning to wonder if perhaps i'm a bit too sensitive to it.
>>
>> In fact this isn't specific to MythTV. I watched the Microsoft Windows
>> MCE demo at the home show last week and they had the same video issues
>> both with a HP PC and an XBox 360.
>>
>> So
>>
>> 1. Anyone notice it with their setup.
>
> Fairly common problem, most TV encoders are trying to do progressive to
> interlaced conversions and not neccecarily doing a great job of it. The
> video doesn't always line up with the scan lines, and conversion between
> the two is ugly, so the whole thing gets a bit soft.
>
> And the original content was interlaced, so you've really got
> interlaced->progressive->interlaced in there.
>
> One of the drivers I have for getting a decent HD set is not really all
> that HD content out there, but so I can drive it over HDMI in a
> progressive mode and bypass a few conversion steps.

Tried a number of HD screens over DVI->HDMI and the blur is still high.
Got a de-interlacer enabled to perform

  interlaced->progressive

Still isn't as clear as a DVD player.

Steve