[MPlayer-users] Digital camcoder

[Matthias Wieser]

Hi,

> I'm with Rich here.  Interlaced video does indeed cause a lot of
> unique artifacts, such as jagged edges.  You really do end up with half
> the resolution at twice the framerate.

The frames are shifted +- 0.5 lines so you nearly get full resolution.

> You don't "see interlacing", you see the side-effects of interlacing...

I even did some photographs: (at my TV) I didn't see individual lines, it 
looked more like a homogeneous frame every 1/50s.

Also some "real world tests" like scrolling text (cnn,...), sports, ... 
didn't show side-effects of interlacing.

> If you personally can't see any of the artifacts, you probably don't
> own a TV larger than 20 inches (or about 50 centimeters).

I own a >50cm Sony Trinitron TV. And I have seen other TVs, too.

> And by the
> way, I'm in NTSC-land, so TV signals have even more fields per-second.

Maybe that's the reason. PAL has higher vertical resolution and better 
chroma, so maybe those "jagged edges" are unique to NTSC.

Cu, 
  Matthias