What do you find worse when watching a DVD?

I'd say blockiness; even a softer image isn't atrocious...

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it disrupts the look of the frame.

http://www.hometheateradvice.com/story.php?sid=artifacts has a considerable list, though I wish it had more visuals.

The Monty Python "Meaning of Life" DVD is transferred so poorly that there are HUGE jaggies in all the diagonals and digital motion-blur all over the place. It drove me way beyond distraction when I watched it, and then I started fuming about the $20 I'd just paid for it. Thank god I still have the VHS tape.

take the video and clean it up. With enough work, the arifacts can be signficiantly reduced or eliminated, though there may be a slight softness issue as a residual. (I won't know until tonight how well I can restore the sharpness, but I'd rather the quality disc be a bit soft than full of crappy MPEG compression... hell, it's to be played on a standard TV and, let's face it, many professional DVD entities (namely COlumbia tri-star) make crap transfers anyway. Pity I can't get the master LD anymore as I, a comparative expert these days and looking to make something of a career on a professional level one day, would do it justice, without the middlework and without the need to make it needlessly soft. :cry: )