4.It does freeze.

Then it's encoded that way onto the DVD and has nothing to do with your TV set.

I know this sounds exactly like Mpeg artifacting, but why does it show up when the DVDs I usually test are not supposed to have mpeg artifacting

And tell me, which magical rainbow fairy unicorn DVDs are these?

Even the "Superbit" DVDs I've seen have visible MPEG artifacts. They're better than those crap-produced DVDs where they spend too little bitrate on the movie itself and instead cram extra features onto disc one, but the artifacts are still there.

It seems that when I have the Noise Reduction off, everything has sort of a 'bright edge' to it...

That is the effect of sharpening. Welcome to the other bad part about some DVDs... overprocessing. For some reason, the people who master these DVDs seem to like to crank up the sharpening filter way WAY too much. They must be previewing the things on tweleve inch screens. Ick.

here is the picture....I forgot to attach it before.

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