General increase in DVD authoring flaws?

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In this review of the DVD set Cannon: The Complete Collection, Stuart Galbraith IV writes the following:
A number of DVD labels seem to using technology to author discs that might be cheaper and/or faster, which creates highly noticeable authoring flaws. Cannon, along with some other series I’ve seen recently on DVD (Quincy, M.E. being another), exhibits an unnatural jerkiness, almost a pixilation effect, whenever there is motion: a speeding car, an actor walking across a room, etc. It’s very distracting some of the time, and makes these already ancient video masters appear even worse than they need to be.
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What amuses me is watching some of the old detective series on TV. The scene opens to a police station. The men muster to go to a killing. They reach for their hats and we watch them go out. We see them get into the cars and they drive off. We amaze ourselves at their ability to find parking just outside the building and watch them decant and enter the building.

The same scene today shows the police needing to go to the crime scene. The next we see is the same police looking over the body. Everything is sped up and we consistently require CGI to keep our interest in increasingly predictable plots. The authoring flaws which you so rightly point out are the least of our worries in the new fast paced mania we call cinema now.
 
A renowned computer expert has essentially told me that the selected bit rate can be a factor.
 
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