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

...As was I. As a matter of fact, I have asked one of our vendors to 
strike up a dialog...also, their "mosquito" noise reduction was excellent.
Mark Schubin wrote:
> 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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