Quality in HDTV Post

Mark Horton, Bob Pank

The expectation of high definition television is that it should at least be a technically superior viewing experience - so picture quality is immediately an issue. Maintaining quality through post production is vital as it is a part of the complex path from scene to screen. More than that, with far greater picture detail, corrective measures to improve the pictures also assume a high importance as does the tool-set to enable program makers to accomplish their planned results. Achieving such aims economically appears to be hampered by the very high data rates and storage needed for HD but by examining a number of alternatives acceptable schemes can be found.

Published
1999-11
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/M00313
ISBN
978-1-61482-931-7