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Is the ever-present motion artifact 'problem' an incurable situation?

Posted by centurymantra (A) on April 2, 2004 at 07:07:25

As a film buff, I have been working my way into building up a home theatre. This began with the purchase of a nice LCD projector and Da-Lite 106" screen which I do very much enjoy, with it's approximation of the 'big-screen' experience. The clarity of color and resolution of detail present in high-quality DVD playback is excellent, but I have slowly become more and more frustrated by the blurring and lack of flow that is present in the digital video medium when displaying motion and panning screen shots. The quality of the DVD transfer has some bearing on this, but this problem is apparently part & parcel of the DVD playback format. I have recently upgraded to a Camelot Roundtable DVD player in my quest to attain the best possible picture, thinking that a high quality playback source such as this may be able to go some way towards reducing the motion artifacts/distortion. Well, the player presents a very nice, rich and film-like picture quality and it significantly betters the player I had been using, but does very little for the motion problem, which leads me to believe that this is simply a currently (until the technology develops a bit more) incurable problem of digital video. And I feel that this IS a problem as it robs the film experience of it's ability to fully absorb you into the experience. I'm sure that there has been much discussion on this and I see equipment reviews regularly referring to how well the equipment handles 'motion artifact' issues, but I wonder if anyone has some insight into the technicalities of this issue and whether there is a way to deal with it. I know there are some pretty high-dollar scaler, line quadruplers, etc. out there and it seems that DVI connections are the wave of the future. Is there any current technology or set-up application that could be employed to counter this. Also, what does the future hold for the medium?

Bryan K.,
Music Lover & President-elect of C.C.A.C. (Concerned Citizens Against Cilantro)

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