Tony, that shot was a digital photograph of the monitor, so I attributed some of its characteristics to that fact. If it was taken during a quick pan or other large change in the overall frame, you'd be able to see the lines in a very dramatic way. Also, if the image is frozen like that, the lines are much more pronounced than when you're actually watching. Look at the Titanic VHS capture on the DScaler site, it looks pretty bad as well.

So it turns out there was some encoding problem and it wasn't just a matter of de-interlacing on playback. Interesting. I haven't done any captures to anything but the default VCR format yet. Mainly because my captures were for my own "time-shifted" viewing purposes. When I add a DVD burner to my network then I'll be more concerned with the other options.

So I was scrolling the page up and down to see where I missed Hugo's post... Ha. I didn't know my reply was so authoritative that I'd be confused with him.

If any other oddities come up or if anyone had any neat feature/option suggestions let me know. I'll submit them internally (and take credit for them ) I'm also working on my own design document for this type of application.

Bruno