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[opendtv] Re: I've seen a demo from LetItWave

From: Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:15:32 -0400

I was very impressed with it at NAB.

TTFN,
Mark


Jeroen Stessen wrote:
> Hello, 
> This week we've had a private demo from the French company LetItWave: 
>   http://www.letitwave.com/  (Thanks to Olivier Houot for the tip !) 
>
> They use the theory of bandlets for de-interlacing, resolution 
> enhancement, 
> and noise and artefact reduction. We have seen some simulated video, and 
> also a real-time demo from an FPGA on a PCI-card. I was much impressed ! 
> Their guy, Alban D'Halluin (director, HDTV marketing) was not at all shy 
> to answer our tricky questions. He seemed honest and knowledgable. 
>
> They are doing studio-quality conversion from 576@50i (a.k.a. PAL) to 
> 720@50p (a.k.a. Euro-HD), but they are not limited to these standards. 
> (But they do no frame rate conversion, and do not use motion vectors.) 
>
> 80% of the quality is determined by the de-interlacer, and theirs is yet 
> another variant of the motion-adaptive (not motion-compensated) method. 
> In the simulations it succeeded on some very critical test sequences. 
>
> Their equipment has been used for HDTV broadcasting from the tennis 
> championship at Roland Garros, because only the center court had real 
> HD cameras. Only the experts could tell the difference between the real 
> 720p and the upconverted video. And this on a mere PCI card. 
>
> There have been demos at the NAB, and there will be new and improved 
> demos at the coming IBC. Highly recommended. 
>
> I seemed to understand that Yves Faroudja has an advisory function or 
> something to them. I thought that he wanted no more of interlace ? 
>
> Oh, and Prin: you guys should worry, they do outperform you a little 
> on de-interlacing, and probably for a fraction of the cost... 
>
>
>
> PS: Philips Applied Technologies Eindhoven wants to hire 1-2 designers for 
>
> various video signal processing jobs. Let me know if any of you are 
> interested. 
>
> Greetings, 
> -- Jeroen
>
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