NTSC Compatible Advanced Television System and Implications for Studio Standards

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1989, No. 26, pp. 254–266
Abstract: In the broadcasting industry, the transition from today's NTSC to the inevitable HDTV is perceived to be the outlaying of major investments accompanied by the risk of low to nonexistent rates of return. An NTSC-compatible system approach can alleviate the initial economic shock, and with careful planning, can be designed to permit a phase-in period of several years. The migration concept discussed in this paper increments the degree of participation, especially by local broadcasters and smaller production companies, with corresponding incremental improvements in the picture quality delivered to the viewer at each step in the migration. This paper describes a family of studio scanning standards that are appropriate to each of these levels of quality at the home display. Emphasis is placed on the use of progressive scanning rather than interlace in the first major upgrade to gain as early as possible the advantages that progressive scan offers in production and post-production operations. An exciting new progressive scan concept is described that holds promise of achieving for archiving purposes the full high-definition static and dynamic resolution within the same recording bandwidth required of today's interlaced HDTV equipment.
Publication Date: 1989-02-01
DOI: 10.5594/M00753
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M00753
Author(s): S. Merrill WeissConsultant National Broadcasting Company New York, N.Y.
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S. Merrill Weiss is Managing Director of Advanced Television Systems at NBC, in New York. He is NBC's principal technologist and manager directly involved in the development of advanced compatible television (ACTV) at the David Sarnoff Research Center. He has spent a twenty-two year career in broadcasting, designing and building new facilities and developing new technologies. He has been involved in SMPTE activities to standardize digital video, component analog video, NTSC, and digital control, and he currently chairs the Committee on Television Technology. He is a Fellow of the SMPTE.
Kerns H. PowersConsultant National Broadcasting Company New York, N.Y.
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Dr. Kerns H. Powers retired from RCA in 1987, after 35 years of service, with a specialty of communications engineering, especially television. He is currently a consultant for NBC, the David Sarnoff Research Center, and other clients. After graduation from the University of Texas in 1951, Dr. Powers joined RCA Laboratories at Princeton, New Jersey, to work on dot sequential television, the forerunner of NTSC. Over the years at RCA, his work involved high-resolution radar, ELF transmission, data communication, satellite communication, video, and enhanced definition television. He became a group head in 1959, Director of the Communications Research Laboratory in 1966, and Staff Vice-President, Communications Research in 1977. At the time of his retirement, he was in charge of research in support of the communications, broadcasting, and government systems businesses of RCA. Dr. Powers received BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Texas in 1951, and an ScD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956. He has 16 issued patents and has published numerous technical papers. His honors include the Forty-One for Freedom from the U.S. Navy in 1967, delivery of the prestigeous Shoenberg Lecture before the Royal Television Society in 1987, and the Progress Medal of SMPTE in 1988. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of SMPTE.
Copyright: © 1989 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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1. Weiss S. M. , “Evolutionary Approaches to Advanced Television-Making the Migration Possible,” BETTER VIDEO IMAGES, SMPTE , 1989 . EXTERNAL
2. National Broadcasting Company, Inc. , “Proposed American National Standards for Television Signal Parameters, 1050/59.94/2:1 and 525/59.94/1:1 & 1050/59.94/1:1 High Definition Production Systems,” submitted to the SMPTE, October 14, 1988 . EXTERNAL
3. Powers K. H. , “High Definition Production Standards–Progressive or Interlace?,” COMPONENTS OF THE FUTURE, SMPTE , 1985 . EXTERNAL
4. National Broadcasting Company, Inc. , “A Single Worldwide High Definition Television Studio Standard,” submitted to the ATSC, March 19, 1985 . EXTERNAL
5. Stott J. H. Phillips G. J. , “Digital Video: multiple sub-Nyquist coding,” BBC Research Department Report No. 1977/21. EXTERNAL
6. Reitmeier G. A. Dischert R. A. , “A Multiplexed Nyquist Region Approach for High Quality 2:1:1 Digital Video,” Symposium Record, International Television Symposium and Technical Exhibition , Montreux Switzerland, May 30-June 4, 1981 . EXTERNAL

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