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artax said:Can't agree more! Those drone videos are terrible. Like someone else said, US military totally wating money if that's the best they can do! A 300 dollar RC helicopter with a 200 dollar 12MP digital camera, (suspended on rubber bands for the vibration) and a 32GB sdcard would be far superior!
These images show definite artifacts from image conversion. I believe the live video was recorded on a mediocre (as opposed to broadcast-grade) video recorder, and then possibly converted from NTSC to PAL or something, before being converted to highly compressed JPG format. There is the typical faint blockiness of the JPG conversion as well as skewing that looks like time-base errors in a VCR.
If they did take this from a VCR recording, low-grade machines combine chroma and luminance, and once combined, a lot of information is lost.
Jon