Film Scanning for DTV & Beyond

Peter R. Swinson

The age of Digital television is here now, Standard definition and High Definition. — Film entertainment will form by far the greatest source of material for these transmissions. — The paper explains both the benefits of film sourced material and some of the pitfalls that can occur when considering methods to transfer film images to DTV. — The issues of both Widescreen Films and Widescreen TV are covered as well as the matter of whether to generate a single digital (video) master or provide individual telecine transfers for each standard.

Published
1997-11
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/M00259
ISBN
978-1-61482-928-7