Yes I am referring to the cut scenes.
I'm not using a widescreen monitor, it's a 4:3 crt hence using 1600x1200 on the hd4850.
I didn't realise the cutscenes were 640x480 so I guess it could just be blowing that up; somehow I imagined that sort of thing was just like DVD footage. [Or is that also going to be affected? Not sure I ever watched a dvd on this screen.]
I had thought the videos looked better on another computer using the same monitor but that's since decided to crash every time I call the game up. Sod's law.
Edit: Ok, now I tried it on my voodoo 5 box, same monitor. Some graininess but it looks a lot better to me, there is pixelation but it doesn't seem to last as long and/or there is less of it. Quite hard to tell but there isn't the intrusive "this is shit" feeling when playing the video cutscenes on the v5 . Pity the v5 can't handle the maximum resolutions for the game. I notice with both cards that when the scene changes in a cutscene, it starts blocky and then it gets smoothed. The voodoo has better colours so maybe that's part of it. But it looks like the hd4850 is not smoothing things as fast. Weird. Maybe it's just my imagination, heh.
Hmm now I see these catalyst drivers have all sorts on useful looking options under video, all of which seem to be impossible to save so they might as well not be there. De-blocking, mosquito noise reduction, and so on.