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Old 25th March 2020, 23:21   #5  |  Link
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I still would suggest to just decode the .m2ts from the BD, not capture it in a lossy way.

If that would be for a capturing exercise, well:
In your upload Black values are lifted, compression artifacts introduced.

I wouldn't consider any further work on that file.
Maybe the pinnacle box introduced that, maybe the later reencoding...

Once you decide to capture a HD source with a SD capturer: you lose quality.
If the capturing device uses lossy codecs: you lose quality again.
I once had a Pinnacle DV box: this one introduced compression artifacts at the block borders.
Any MPEG2 capturing box I tried from 2002 to 2004: useless, video was damaged.
Still I got a Canopus ADVC300 : this went ok for VHS to DV quality.
And recently a Blackmagic Decklink: Finally 10bit 4:2:2 uncompressed, good enough for all VHS sources.

HD capturing: I would say once it is digitized, take it from there, not capturing again.
Maybe for better understanding you could upload your BD source sample ?
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