[James2001]

When you're able to see these direct comparisons,it makes you realise just what a complete mess it is, both in terms of how much picture's cut off, and how soft and pixellated it is (admittedly the Paramount captures aren't good with that either, though I imagine that's down to the person who captured and uploaded it rather than how Paramount showed it).

I hope it gets fixed soon now it sounds as if some of the right people may have finally been informed. Though it's still mind blowing it's gone on for so long without people noticing, it really makes you wonder who's working there.

Curious that in every comparison capture I've done and seen, all the zooming is being done from the bottom and sides of the screen- nothing's cut off from the top. When the de-interlacing first started happening, there was a thin black bar at the top of the screen on the affected shows (I think only EastEnders and Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em had this), possibly they actually noticed that one and "fixed" that problem by just zooming into the picture until the black bar had gone (which possibly has something to do with the blurriness and pixellation, bad zooming/scaling algorithms can do that). But of course never fixed the de-interlacing issue.