Why Interlaced Video Must Be Converted to Progressive for Streaming

Broadcast content, especially legacy TV content from standard definition (SD) catalogs, is/was primarily captured as interlaced video. Each frame contains two separate images (called “fields”) captured at slightly different moments in time and they are separated, or de-interlaced, by end user equipment.

Streaming platforms and modern devices do not have de-interlacing capabilities as they are built for progressive video only; where each frame is a complete, single image.

High-quality de-interlacing is essential to preserve picture quality and avoid visible artifacts such as aliasing, vertical jitter, ghosting, and picture softness when repurposing broadcast content for streaming. Cinnafilm’s Tachyon de-interlace process, available in PixelStrings and other enterprise transcoders, fully preserves image quality helping you unlock the value of your interlaced TV library for modern streaming.

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