[opendtv] Re: Europe now debates i vs p
- From: <tjharvey@xxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "OpenDTV (E-mail)" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:16:41 -0400
It's a shame if the Euros embark on HD with yet a different array of HD
standards: albeit the same spatial 1080i and 720p but 50Hz based.
As the legacy of power frequency related display devices is no longer an issue,
what is wrong with 60Hz across the board?
Terry Harvey
>
> From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2004/09/10 Fri AM 10:47:57 EDT
> To: "OpenDTV (E-mail)" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [opendtv] Europe now debates i vs p
>
> If there's anything I can glean from the US HDTV
> transition, it is that the i vs p debate was and
> continues to be completely pointless, as long as
> both options are accommodated. Much ado about
> nothing, yet it goes on still.
>
> Bert
>
>
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> Flat world gives HDTV hope
> By Junko Yoshida and David Benjamin, EE Times
> September 09, 2004 (3:38 PM EDT)
> URL: http://www.eet.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=3D47101921
>
> AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Explosive sales of flat-panel displays
> in the consumer TV market might be the key that finally unlocks
> the long-dormant potential of high-definition digital TV in
> Europe, according to a panel of old HD hands at the
> International Broadcasting Convention here Thursday (Sept. 9).
>
> To turn the key, however, said panelist Lars Haglund, senior R&D
> researcher at Sverige Television (STV), Sweden's public TV
> network, HD broadcasters must wean themselves away from
> interlaced matrix display and adopt progressive scanning, which
> is far more compatible with flat [LCD and plasma] displays.
>
> Europe, which pioneered the successful Digital Video Broadcast
> (DVB) standard, has thus far focused only on standard definition
> digital TV. Europe has revived discussions of the new HDTV spec
> only recently.
>
> Citing an urgent need for production equipment that can deliver
> television images of 720 lines of horizontal resolution at
> 50-hertz progressive scanning, Haglund said, "We need a lot of
> true high-definition programming to put out an HD service. We
> need 50-hertz equipment now!" SVT is planning to have its new
> "play out" center with a 720P/50 core operational by August 2006.
> Although SVT isn't ready to offer 720-line progressive services,
> producing programming in 720p is considered as the first
> necessary step toward that goal.
>
> Speaking more cautiously, because his company supplies hardware
> to broadcasters in both the interlaced and progressive scanning
> camps, David Bancroft, manager of advance technologies at France's
> Thomson, acknowledged, "We will probably see interlaced becoming
> harder and more expensive to support in the long run. For that
> reason, we would like to see progressive scanning taking hold."
>
> The renewed momentum behind the progressive scanning debate also
> comes from a growing trend in which more TV production facilities
> are beginning to use IT technologies. Bancroft said, "It's harder
> to sustain a separate technology just for TV."
>
> The main obstacle to Haglund's dream and Bancroft's forecast was
> sitting with them in the panel in the person of Ikuo Wada, deputy
> director general for corporate planning at NHK, Japan's
> state-subsidized public TV corporation and the world pioneer in
> HDTV.
>
> NHK broadcasts more HD programming to a larger installed based of
> HD TV sets than any other country, all in the 1080/50 interlaced
> matrix it has been refining since the first analog HDTV broadcast
> in 1986. Wada said Japan has little reason to change its
> technology from interlaced to progressive scanning now, because
> "de-interlacing technologies" are becoming commonly available
> that, he claimed, will moot the issue. Many high-end flat
> displays already come with "very sophisticated signal processing
> systems," he added.
>
> The other leader in HDTV is the United States. Panelist Mike
> Strein, director of media development and planning for ABC
> Television, said his network broadcast 800 hours of HD
> programming last year, "and 98 percent of it was 720 progressive
> scan."
>
> With Japan committed to interlaced and the U.S. leading the world
> in 720p, the balance will be tipped by the next major market
> scheduled to adopt HD: Europe. Bancroft made clear which way
> Europe - and, thanks to the flat panel boom, probably the world -
> is leaning. He said, "If we have the opportunity to grab at
> progressive scan, it's a good opportunity to take, and Europe
> seems to provide that opportunity right now."
>
> Copyright 2003 CMP Media
>
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