This is just a quick post to highlight the recent degradation of SBS’s SD transmissions…
Here’s what it looked like on 30th March, 2009.
![shameless-30-03-09 Shameless SBS 30-03-09](https://qeyesoftware.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/shameless-30-03-09.jpg)
Now here’s what happened on 20th April, 2009
![shameless-20-04-09-interlace-problem Shameless SBS 20-04-09 Interlace Problem](https://qeyesoftware.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/shameless-20-04-09-interlace-problem.jpg)
The main problem here is that SBS is transmitting the interlaced fields offset by 1, which means the two non-movement fields are on adjacent frames and not on the same frame as they should be.
We can fix that, and this is what we get…
![shameless-20-04-09-interlace-fixed Shameless SBS 20-04-09 Interlace Problem Fixed](https://qeyesoftware.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/shameless-20-04-09-interlace-fixed.jpg)
Notice how the image is much blockier than the top image?
Update: 29/04/2009
The incorrect interlacing problem was not present in the Shameless episode this week, but the macro blocking is still hideous.