[FredThompson]

Hey, that's pretty cool.

Interpolation is the better of the 2 options for saturated red on black. The junk isn't removed, it's turned into more of a somewhat dampened blob. That's a huge improvement from the grid-like original.

I've not finished testing it inside my AviSynth scripting and am wondering how it will perform at the beginning of the filter chain. Maybe if it's first, followed by CNR2 and other noise filters, the red smear will be reduced even more. Can't test that wiht VirtualDub because VirtualDub filters come after the AviSynth processing.

Is this filter something you're open to actively working on?

I'm wondering how performance could change with an agressive weighting for very low luminence regions. The idea being this distortion is far more evident when the background should be black.

So...how about a way to dramatically decrease the chroma if the luma is very low a la DarkSmoother?