Fiddling around with it in Staxrip I found a few things.
With default settings and with d=0 (Temp on or off made no difference), there was significant blurring compared to the older 7.7 version.
See here:
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comp...3278/picture:0
Its two sets, first is with 1.0b1 vs 7.7, and second with 1.0b1 vs OFF.
Keep in mind this is after it was upsampled and sharpened (awarpsharp2 and LSFMod) a good bit, so the blurring is actually a bit worse before probably (I cant take a pic without LSFMod because id have to redo how havfunc is loaded to make NNedi3 work)
Also with channels = "YUV", although Staxrip doesnt complain, it makes the preview window only show this:
http://imgur.com/mmjCT8e
EDIT: Tried setting all the basic values to 1, but no effect on reducing blur (a,s, and h. Did d as well to play with it)