sanlyn,
Saw the same damage also watching the national championship it was mainly during the TV commercials.
The sample is bad, but the demo are what it looks like
Have DVD files for this, that have never been altered.
Before I quit did one more test run....
Personally made serious progress on this, uploaded the video to my new YOUTUBE account, however I don't know what the hell I am doing. I think it can be fixed. Some parts you still have some field damage which is fine.
The motion and field blending is the key to fixing this.
The motion looks ok on YOUTUBE, but that is false, this take is a little better than some of the other I tried.
This was like a random attempt of doing random things that would more than likely not work.
The 1st couples takes the water reflections on 16 were really bad, it is a little better on this.
HDD to DVD recorded, files 704x480 recorded in 2 hour mode
Converted to 16:9 720x480
Sent to Virtual Dub
Deinterlaced Blend Field, keep top Field
Resized to Letterbox in Virtual Dub which normally messes up the video.
Output avi
Recoded video in 720x480, centered the video cause of the 704x480 resize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54NLMyPkzc