[rixrex]

Certainly that is very true!

If you ever see a DVD transfer where the action scenes tend to 'strobe', this limitation of blur effect with the corresponding microsecond blank field or frame swap is the reason why. Your eye due to natural design will always have a natural blur effect on fast or wide motion activity but there is no corresponding frame swap. If there is a lack of or limited blur effect in a video or film image action scene, the scene will look herky-jerky to the eye and create this strobe effect. Some filmmakers actually use this for an effect, but most times it just looks unnatural.

This is one of the initial complaints about some early DVD transfers, and the same complainers would state that they thought LDs appeared more 'film-like'. This was mostly a side effect of the progressive scan generators on early DVD players for certainly if an original film had a blur effect on the film itself, it would be transferred to LD, tape, or DVD regardless. Still it's an effect not immediately visible to an untrained eye, plus it's also less noticable on CRT sets because of the slight afterglow image of the phospor screen.