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Basically, interlace video was tricking your eye into thinking that you were seeing a full frame, when you were only seeing half every 60th of a second (in NTSC territory). Problem with online and newer TV’s is that they display full frames in progressive scan at 30 frames per second. For older interlace content, they have to be converted to play properly on online sites or you’ll end with something that looks like you are viewing it while holding a comb in front of your eyes.I know that last paragraph makes sense technology-wise, but I can't help but think if Doc Brown had said all that to Marty McFly, Marty would have cried out, "English, Doc!" as he did in "Back to the Future Part II."
Tom Swift, you're amazing!!Have you picked up the “Christmas Memories” DVD from 2015? It doesn’t have the full specials, but it has the highest quality versions of the specials currently out there. The one downside is that all the videos feature stereo mixes, including both the exclusive Christmas Alphabet & Make Me Laugh are in new stereo remixes. (Even the previously released video for Santa Claus Is Coming To Town from the “Perry Como Christmas Show” uses the 1984 AOFC Stereo mix, whereas the 2013 Perry Como DVD used the original mono broadcast audio—-which was the 45 mono mix.). Also the Winter Wonderland/Silver Bells/White Christmas is featured in a stereo mix that is exclusive to the DVD, since all the connecting parts were removed, so instead of the choir singing in between WW & SB, it cuts the choir out right to Karen’s vocal. And it’s a very jarring cut. Even the space between SB & WC has Karen’s first verse on WC cut out.
(Just remember the specials were shot on NTSC Composite Videotape—-either 2-inch Quad or 1-inch tape, so they exist at 480i-only! What’s online and even on bootleg DVD’s, has been software deinterlaced where 1-field of the 720x480i frame has been thrown out and you are really seeing a 720x240p video that’s just had its 1-remaining field doubled. But the “Christmas Memories” DVD features the videos in a downcoverted 720x480i video (because the DVD is a downconversion of the HD broadcast master where the videos would have been run through a hardware deinterlacer, thus resulting in a much higher picture because it would’ve used the information from both fields to make a high quality 480p image that was the upscaled to either 720p or 1080i, whatever the broadcast station called for the master to be mastered at)).