Ok. I just got back from K-mart this evening. I was reviewing the current trend of HDtv sets and LCD's, and I am ( not surprised ? ) that they still haven't nailed the displays "deinterlace" feature yet. I had the chance to review about 12 displays, from small to large. I couldn't help wonder about our software method vs these digital hardwares'. I am starting to believe that it is probably better to "software deterlace" certain interlaced sources when the displays are progressive HD and/or LCD, assuming the owner of such displays know allready the outcome prior to. But that is a subjective opinion at the moment.

Granted, the source I was watching was: A) Footback B) Interlaced and C) Digital--from satellite broadcast

Most of us know already that {C from broadcasters of many sourts} is known for artifacts from multiple levels, ranging from reduced bitrate, to poor content quality (because most sources is shared/rented and then the *new* temporary provider adds their flavor of mixture to the source--that can be anything) and other nonsense.

I was observing each display's deinterlace and noise-reduction feature. I was mostly interested in the deinterlace aspects, such as quality. Unfortunately, they (displays) were all pretty much the same, louzy artifacts though mostly from motion.

On some displays, when the scene was still, and a player was in low motion, you parts of the player was blury, like their head features. The more details of a given area, the worse. But in faster motion then everything was (crappy) artifacts on multi levels.

However, two models did stand out, Panasonic: ? and Sony: Bravia -- both were 40" inches, I think. Anyway.
These still suffered from the motion artifacts but their noise-reduction were much better, so I thought.

I was wondering just how bad the satellite source was (the game was on around 4pm or so--forget which one) if it was at all, because there is room to blame the displays due to their default (or, always-on) image processor and deinterlace feature. I wonder if any of them support the "chicken-switch" or turn it all off feature, but I guess that is just not applicable to these equipment in this HD world of today because the mfr'er want you believing in their equipment or some other excuse.

By the way, they (k-mart) were offering Dish Network, so I assume they were using dish network in that game's example I was watching.

I should have gotten the model numbers of each but I was not actually going to do a review here--I was not planing on it, though it came up as an idea while I was reviewing something else on my computer, hence this topic.

I am curious as to what are some of your thoughts / comments on this review ?
(i mean, the issues with the deinterlace mainly)

-vhelp 5253