Yes, similar, except he seems to have used 23.976->25, but that's practically the the same of course.
Yeah, I know soft pulldown is preferable.
Just wondering why we're not seeing this type of pulldown more with for example fan preservations... Maybe it's just not very well known or there could be other issues..
(Btw, the issues mentioned in that thread with the blended fields - it's my understanding this usually stems from poorly converted ntsc material -> pal (bad ivtc).)