Modern displays and the introduction of video in personal computers attract a lot of attention for de-interlacing technology. In this paper, a subjective assessment of various de-interlacing techniques is presented and compared with the popular PSNR metric. We used paired comparison, and tested five very different algorithms including inter-and intra-field linear, edge dependent, motion compensated and content adaptive intra-field methods. Our study reveals that the subjective scores of the de-interlacing techniques is highly correlated with the objective PSNR criterion.