Reducing Financial Aliasing in HDTV Production

The acceptance of High Definition technology by program producers and broadcasters will depend on financial viability as much as on specific technical parameters. This paper proposes a method of operating HDTV equipment which reduces the cost, complexity, and image degradation inherent in conversion to PAL, NTSC, and 35mm film. The operating modes proposed are frame-rate friendly to the local television standard, and High Definition tapes created using the system can be interchanged between countries with no temporal interpolation required. This offers the possibility of international hardware standardization now, and enhanced-capability HDTV-only distribution in the future. Specific details of the process are discussed in relation to the SMPTE-240M standard, but the underlying principles are applicable to any of the proposed HDTV production systems.

Published

1989-02

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00748

ISBN

978-1-61482-918-8