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A word of warning about digital video noise reduction, and other tricks to "improve" bad signals.
There are numerous ways to do it, and each adds its own signature to the image. The question may turn oout to be, "can you stand the DVNR effect?" Or, perhaps, "is the DVNR effect worse than the bad picture to start with?"
A few words of warning about "signal improving."
1. Upscaling. Depending on how this is done, this can help a lot - or not. Interlaced sources are not easy to improve this way.
2. inter-frame NR - this is a cross-time smearing technique, averaging areas that remain constant across frames, up to as many as sixteen frames. This often looks extremely artificial, and also usually includes a certain amount of edge enhancement. It also tends to make the picture look like a stained-glass image - until something moves.
3. in-frame smoothing - Three years ago at work, we got a brand new Samsung (the only 68" at the time,) plasma with this. It was like the front piece of glass had been replaced with that sort of 'scalloped' shower-stall glass. Yeech!
4. Do nothing: subject to "worming" and other curious artifacts. Sometimes, this is the least offensive way to handle things.
I don't know the particulars of either display, but perhaps the best rule of thumb is this:
One can not create information from a signal where there is none.
Leo Kerr
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