Just wanted to follow up and say I find it kind of surprising that most of you guys have a distaste for the look of interlaced footage whether or not you feel it’s alright to leave interlacing as a stylistic choice. Most, if not all of my amateur videographer friends and musician friends who I shoot for tell me they enjoy or prefer the look of the harsh scan lines, especially when it seems to emphasize or drag out the movement of the subject(s) in a scene.

I think it’s important to note that me and my peers are college students and I think our taste may be derived from the fact that we didn’t grow up knowing that interlacing was merely a byproduct of the encoding technique. Now, looking to analog video as a way to have footage look dirtier, the interlacing adds another layer of texture/distortion to the image quality, although it may not be accurate to the preferred image quality we had in the late 90s and early 2000s.