[opendtv] Re: 20060807 Mark's Monday Memo
- From: "Donald Koeleman" <donald.koeleman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:25:11 +0200
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From: "Tom Barry" <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 1:00 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20060807 Mark's Monday Memo
>
>
> Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> >>The BBC has chosen 1080i for their broadcasts (including
> >>the DVB-T trial), believe Sky eventualy chose the same,
> >>after publicly stating they would go with 720P.
> >
> >
> > But again, HDTV is square pixels and 16:9 (transmission standard, of
> > course). Any HDTV transmission standard I've ever seen specified,
> > including Australia, is 1920 X 1080 or 1280 X 720.
> >
> The couple of BBC HD shows I've seen have been encoded at 1440x1080i
> AVC, with non-square pixels.
>
> - Tom
I believe Tom's right about the anamorphic aspectratio. Not sure if that
will change soon, now Sony has started pushing HDCAM SR.
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