Editing Progressive scan (section)

===Advantages===
The main advantage with progressive scan is that motion appears smoother and more realistic.<ref name="diov">{{cite book |title=Digital Overdrive: Communications & Multimedia Technology 2011 |last=Andrews |first=Dale |year=2011 |publisher=Digital Overdrive |isbn=978-1897507018 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wj_UYxxaKqcC |access-date=27 January 2013 }}</ref> There is an absence of visual artifacts associated with interlaced video of the same line rate, such as interline twitter. Frames have no interlace artifacts and can be captured for use as still photos. With progressive scan there is no need to introduce intentional blurring (sometimes referred to as anti-aliasing) to reduce interline twitter and eye strain.

In the case of most media, such as DVD movies and video games, the video is blurred during the authoring process itself to subdue interline twitter when played back on interlaced displays. As a consequence, recovering the sharpness of the original video is impossible when the video is viewed progressively. A user-intuitive solution to this is when display hardware and video games come equipped with options to blur the video at will, or to keep it at its original sharpness. This allows the viewer to achieve the desired image sharpness with both interlaced and progressive displays.

Progressive scan also offers clearer and faster results for scaling to higher resolutions than its equivalent interlaced video, such as upconverting 480p to display on a 1080p HDTV. HDTVs not based on [[Cathode-ray tube|CRT]] technology cannot natively display interlaced video, therefore interlaced video must be [[deinterlacing|deinterlaced]] before it is scaled and displayed. Deinterlacing can result in noticeable [[Deinterlacing#Deinterlacing methods|visual artifacts]] and/or [[input lag]] between the video source and the display device.