I have seen something almost identical in Cyberlink's PowerDVD player (version 6 I think). I have a HTPC and when I play back HD content (recorded transport stream then converted to MPEG2) in PowerDVD there is a menu option to do some enhancement. I can't remember exactly what the name is, but I swear it did the same thing. You can even do it split-screen. It runs the CPU utilization up fairly high when it's turned on. It's not critical, but it did usually make the picture look a little better, especially ocean/nature/landscape type stuff. I didn't like it turned on for movies though.
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I have seen something almost identical in Cyberlink's PowerDVD player (version 6 I think). I have a HTPC and when I play back HD content (recorded transport stream then converted to MPEG2) in PowerDVD there is a menu option to do some enhancement. I can't remember exactly what the name is, but I swear it did the same thing. You can even do it split-screen. It runs the CPU utilization up fairly high when it's turned on. It's not critical, but it did usually make the picture look a little better, especially ocean/nature/landscape type stuff. I didn't like it turned on for movies though.