Quality of video in Canvas vs. Viewer.....I know it's been covered before..

I've set my video play back and frame rate both at "high" and have set the properties of the timeline to match the properties of the clips coming in, so why does the quality of video in my Canvas window suck compared to the quality of the video of the same clip in the Viewer??
Thanks in advance for any/all help with this one.
Cheers,
BH

It all pertains to this stock answer....
#2 Blurry Playback
Shane's Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL BROADCAST MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
The Canvas shows you what happens after the codec you are working with has been applied. The Viewer shows you the material in its native format. Once you drop the footage from the Viewer into the timeline, it inherits the attributes of the sequence. If it is a DV sequence, the footage will render out as DV.
1. Disable overlays on the Canvas.
2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline).
Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or broadcast monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
WHY is the Viewer clearer? No clue. But both are just reference windows...just for you to see what you have. Never judge the quality of your footage in either window.
Shane

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