russs15 said:

It could be anything from the original VHS, the VHS to DVD recorder process, the low quality setting on this particar version of the transfer, the DVD to AVI conversion process or any combination of the four things.

If the higher quality DVD file looks as bad - blame the VHS or DVD recorder!!! Either way, we are screwed.

Jonno really has his work cut out on this one.........

My money's on this was just the settings on the tv the day it was recorded. Seems like theres no univeral settings for telecines/broadcasts either (!)

Just glad it made it intact to 2012!