I've been digging around to find some DVDs I've owned for awhile now and continuing to be impressed. Interlaced video does look bad, the worst performing (in this respect) player I have. The more frenzied the movement the worse the interlace combing artifacts get (watch some music videos),
extremely obvious. Though like I said before progressive video and "mild" interlaced video generally looks great to
excellent. DVD still looks like DVD, but the player seems to have a knack for making even average DVD transfers look surprisingly good and like I've said it puts my $620 more-expensive-than-this-Oppo Denon 2910 to absolute shame...
Here's few shots of
Desperado from the old
El Mariachi / Desperado Double Feature with the bitrate averaging a low 3-4 megabytes a second on a single layer/double-sided disc:
Looks better in-person, but you get the idea.
