Improved Television Systems: NTSC and Beyond

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY
Doc Type: Conference Paper
Content Type: Original Research
Volume: 1987, No. 31, pp. 157–174
Abstract: After a discussion of the limits to received image quality in NTSC and a review of various proposals for improvement, it is concluded that the current system is capable of significant increase in spatial and temporal resolution, and that most of these improvements can be made in a compatible manner. Newly designed systems, for the sake of maximum utilization of channel capacity, should use many of the techniques proposed for improving NTSC, such as high-rate cameras and displays, but should use the component, rather than composite, technique for color multiplexing. A preference is expressed for noncompatible new systems, both for increased design flexibility and on the basis of likely consumer behavior. Some sample systems are described that achieve very high quality in the present channels, full “HDTV” at the CCIR rate of 216 Mb/s, or “better-than-35-mm” at about 500 Mb/s. Possibilities for even higher efficiency using motion compensation are described.
Publication Date: 1987-02-01
DOI: 10.5594/M00888
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/M00888
Author(s): William F. SchreiberMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts
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William F. Schreiber attended the New York City public schools and Columbia University, where he received the B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering. In 1953, he received the Ph.D. in applied physics at Harvard University, where he was a Gordon McKay and Charles Coffin Fellow. Dr. Schreiber worked at Sylvania from 1947 and 1949 and at Technicolor Corp. in Hollywood, Calif. from 1953 to 1959. Since then he has been a faculty member at MIT, where he is now professor of electrical engineering and director of the Advanced Television Research Program. He was visiting professor of electrical engineering at The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1964–66, and at INRS-Telecommunications, Montreal, Quebec, 1981–82. Since 1948, Dr. Schreiber's major professional interest has been image processing. He has worked in graphic arts, including color processing and laser scanner design, in facsimile, and in television. This work has included theory and extensive practical applications. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, an Honors Award recipient of the Technical Association of the Graphics Arts, and has twice received the best paper award of the SMPTE Journal.
Copyright: © 1987 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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