I recently acquired a Panasonic DMR-EZ49V at a charity shop. I got it mainly for transferring VHS tapes to DVD. It also had an SVideo port on it and I had never tried the output from my DVL-919. I was surprised to find that it looked quite a bit sharper than my Kramer VP-773A. I also tried the composite port on the Panasonic and that looked sharper too. I'll post some images here as a comparison, but it seems that the Kramer is softening the image somewhat, maybe it's a setting I have on it?

I can't figure out how to post images directly to this post. Here is a drop box where I have posted 3 images of the same image and the videos as well. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/t7ejgc88 ... 49peq&dl=0

Kramer VP-773A:

Kramer (480P) -> Onkyo NR626 (1080P) -> lG-C1

Settings:
PROCESS -
Deinterlacing - Method - Motion Adaptive
Deinterlacing - Sync - Current Field
Film Mode -Follow Input
Diagonal Correction - 000
MD Sensitivity - Level 3
Picture -Dither - Mode 0

Panasonic SVideo and Composite:

The Panasonic DMR-EZ49V is set to 1080p so is likely doing all the upscaling and deinterlacing. I have tried to read the service manual to figure out what chip it is using to do this but had no luck, I found it too confusing.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Maybe it's just that the upscaling that the onkyo uses is just not that good?

What are your NR settings under Enhance?

Forgot to include that part, just double checked. They're all set to zero.