----- Original Message ----- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
That's been done already, at least in a first generation product, by Algolith. And certainly, this sort of solution makes a lot of sense *given that* we have MPEG-2 deployed now, all over the DTV world.
Algolith makes Broadcast gear, not consumer decoders, and I cannot find any documentation that their "BAR" Block Artifact Reducer technology is used in any consumer gear. Their noise reduction cards that include BAR operate in the SD-SDI and HD-SDI domains, post MPEG decoding.
What I am referring to should be easily implementable into every consumer MPEG-2 decoder chipset used in STBs, DVD players, and Digital Televisions. Fading to Macroblocks should be a thing of the past.
John
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