{"id":2936,"date":"2010-12-20T20:24:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T01:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2023-11-20T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T20:46:01","slug":"comparing-digital-video-downloads-of-interlaced-tv-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/comparing-digital-video-downloads-of-interlaced-tv-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Digital Video Downloads of Interlaced TV Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=484\">Michael Steil<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=484\"><p>It is scary how little effort seems to be going into video conversion\/encoding at major players like iTunes, Netflix and Hulu. Amazon did a kind of okay job converting the source material properly, and only Microsoft did an excellent job. The NTSC DVDs still give you the maximum quality &#8211; but of course, if you watch them on an LCD, the burden of deinterlacing is on your side. Handbrake with &ldquo;detelecine&rdquo; (for the bulk of it) and &ldquo;decomb&rdquo; (for exceptions) turned on, and with a target framerate of &ldquo;same as source&rdquo; will generate a rather good MP4 video similar to Amazon&rsquo;s, but without the judder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from Amazon&rsquo;s 1080p via TiVo, I think I&rsquo;d get better quality watching a DVD than most of the (non-BitTorrent) downloadable and streaming video that&rsquo;s available, even when it&rsquo;s so-called HD.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Steil: It is scary how little effort seems to be going into video conversion\/encoding at major players like iTunes, Netflix and Hulu. Amazon did a kind of okay job converting the source material properly, and only Microsoft did an excellent job. The NTSC DVDs still give you the maximum quality &#8211; but of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-11-20T20:46:03Z","apple_news_api_id":"a9b989f3-9b79-4849-b996-52372fe974a9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-11-20T20:46:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqbmJ85t5SEm5llI3L-l0qQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1515],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-handbrake"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2937,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions\/2937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}