visible artifacts introduced into a digitally sampled video signal are removed from a non - interlaced version of the video signal . the non - interlaced version of the video signal is generated by a converter that converts a digitally sampled interlaced video stream to a non - interlaced video stream . an artifact removal module responds to at least a first component of the non - interlaced video stream by adaptively modifying the first component of the non - interlaced video stream to reduce artifacts introduced into the non - interlaced video stream by the converter to generate a modified non - interlaced video stream .