RetardedTed, I took the liberty of downloading your sample to compare it to my captures. As you can see the ghosting is identical in mine, and is wholly source related. Our captures are different, however. Mine have more muted colours, but seem sharper than yours. You say they are PAL, but they look like NTSC colours to me. Are you sure they haven't been through an NTSC step before being outputted?

There seems to be some difference in the MPEG2 encoding as well. Yours seem to have more artifacts. Mine were captured at +9 Mbps with on-the-fly encoding to MPEG2. Bear in mind the images I have enclosed here are JPG-compressed so I can't deduce anything conclusive.

It would also seem that my playback device (a native PAL Philips VCR) was better than whatever machine your provider used. Look at the noise at the bottom and allround cropping.

I feel somewhat vindicated that the time I spent capturing both Droids and Ewoks wasn't for nought.

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