[QuadList] OT: "Improv Ice" on NBC--16:9 SD uprezzed to 1080i? Hard to watch!

[Ted Langdell]

Am watching HD off air here... (Sony Bravia KDL-40BX421) 40" LCD.

NBC's just now ended skating show, "Improv Ice starring Styx" and it looks like the main program content is 16:9 SD uprezzed to 1080i.  

On the skating and interview segments, I see interlace artifacts such as doubled scan lines on graphics and content.  The video lacks clarity compared to certain show interstitial elements, NBC graphics (the bug is clean!) and HD commercials.

Definitely seeing jaggies on diagonals like mike booms. Small lights have an Image Orthicon halo around them. 

The show is fresh—recorded in the Bi-Lo Center, Greeneville, SC on Dec. 15, 2011.

Wondering what's amiss here.  Is it actually an SD show uprezzed?  HD with an interlace problem?  Setting out of whack during editing or ingest?

Dunno how the average viewer is taking it... but it makes it hard to watch!

My DTV converter box into a Sony BVM-1910 looks better.  

Ted

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