Originally posted by: Moth3r

Originally posted by: mcfly89
... I thought it might be the station compressing the broadcast as MPEG2...

Looking at the source image, I think you could be right. Is it just on shots with high motion?

I may be obsessing a bit too much over "restoring" quality lost in the broadcast. The horizontal distortion is present in even still shots (though barely visible), but I just realized it's present in noisy areas of the shots, which is "motion" as far as an MPEG encoder is concerned. I'm ready to chock this one up to MPEG and close the book.

I was obsessing all day over a slightly different issue, leaving the broadcast noise alone or accepting blocky artifacts from the FFT3D denoiser, and when I finally previewed the two side by side on my TV, the difference was barely visible. I think I just need to accept that these are going to be great on a TV and crap on a PC monitor.