Retrospective: Historical Briefs From Past Issues

Michael Dolan

The September 2000 Journal published in: “Navigating the Rapids of DTV Standards Conversion” by Peter Wilson: “In the modern world of digital television (DTV), lives have become complicated beyond all reason. For various technopolitical reasons, television formats come in an abundance of flavors; 703 are worst case (for up and down conversion there are 19 DTV variants and 37 HDTV variants)! Progressive or interlace exists in a multitude of field or frame rates, therefore, users or originators of DTV programming may have to deal with all of these formats… Phase correlation (Ph.C) is the most successful method to date… In practical systems a steered block matching type process follows phase correlation (Fig. 7).” For the full article, see: https://tinyurl.com/yc8jmk6u

Print ISSN: 1545-0279
Electronic ISSN: 2160-2492
Published: 2025-09
Content type: Opinion
DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2025/BLQL1826

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