Contemporary DTV Acquisition—Some Perspectives on the Related Standards, the Technologies, and the Creative

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1998, No. 7, pp. 1–25
Abstract: The arrival of DTV has created a curious maelstrom of tentative engineering excitement, business anxiety, creative skepticism, and spotty consumer anticipation. In light of the imminent debut of the new DTV services, the lingering technical debates on DTV formats have now become unhelpful, and, in the larger scheme of things, they are already anachronistic. In the context of the front end of the new television system—DTV image acquisition—technical debate certainly still swirls unchecked. This paper will attempt some perspectives intended to urge a move to the next and most important phase of this interindustry DTV movement, namely, proactive implementation by the creative program production community. The present technical status of DTV image acquisition will be shown to be better than many believe. It is suggested that the rigorous implementation of Standards should be subservient to the paced and incremental march of Technology, and that it is the Creative community that best drive the pace of advance of the latter. At some point, it becomes essential for the realities and subjectivity of digital program creation to supplant misguided engineering rigor. Resolution will be central to much that is examined here. There is surely no technical performance parameter that is so carelessly bandied, and so grossly misunderstood, particularly when it comes to the realities of widescreen SDTV and HDTV picture acquisition.
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
DOI: 10.5594/M00265
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M00265
Author(s): Laurence J. ThorpeBroadcast and Professional Company Sony Electronics San Jose, California
Copyright: © 1998 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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[4] SMPTE Subjective Testing. EXTERNAL
[5] International Telecommunication Union, Sep. 1997 Recommendation ITU-R BT.709–2. EXTERNAL
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