[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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