If Progressive Scanning is So Good — How Bad is Interlace?

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 99, No. 1, pp. 300–339
Abstract: Within the HDTV electronic post production system (particularly in its digital implementation) it is hard to argue against the impressive list of merits inherent in progressive scanning. These merits must, however, be evaluated against the sobering reality of the enormous bandwidth required.
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
DOI: 10.5594/J16791
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J16791
Author(s): Laurence J. ThorpeSony Advanced Systems Teaneck, N.J.
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Laurence Thorpe graduated in 1961 from the College of Technology in Dublin, Ireland, with a GRAD IEEE degree in electrical engineering. In 1966 he was awarded an MIEE and was made a Chartered Engineer (C. Eng. — UK). He joined the London-based Designs Department of the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1961 and worked there on the development of a range of studio color equipment until 1966. This equipment included switching systems, standards converters, distribution systems and an automatic differential phasel gain equalizer. In 1966 Thorpe left the BBC to join the Broadcast Division of RCA in Camden, New Jersey, where he remained until 1982. During this period he worked on the development of studio switchers, distribution equipment, telecines, and studio color cameras. In 1975 he became project leader of the TK-47 automatic color camera, for which he received a David Sarnoff award in 1981. In 1979 Thorpe was promoted to Engineering Unit Manager responsible for new developments in studio cameras. He holds ten patents. In 1982 Thorpe resigned from RCA to join the new Sony Broadcast Company where he was Director of Studio Product Management. In this role, he was responsible for the entire line of broadcast and professional video cameras, Betacam field equipment, Super Motion System and Fiber Optics System. He was also principal technical consultant on HDTV. Thorpe is currently Vice President, Production Technology of Sony Advanced Systems — responsible for market development of the Sony HDVS system. He represents Sony on the ATSC HDTV Technology Groups, the SMPTE Working Group on High Definition Electronic Production. He is also Chairman of Working Party 3 on Economic Assessment of the Systems Subcommittee within the FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Services.
T. HanabusaImage Device Division Sony Corp., Tokyo, Japan
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Takaomi Hanabusa was born in Kagawa, Japan in 1953. He received an M.S. Degree in applied physics from Waseda University in 1978. He joined Sony Corporation, Atugi Plant, Japan that same year. He has been engaged in the analysis of camera tube operation and the design of electron gun and focusing deflection systems, especially for the high definition camera tube. He is a member of the Physical Society of Japan.
Copyright: © 1990 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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