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SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal ( Volume: 120, Issue: 7, 2011)
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I can See Clearly Now: A New Test Pattern for the Digital Age

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Publisher
SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type
Journal Article
Content Type
Original Research
Abbreviated Title
SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume
120, No. 7, pp. 31–37
Abstract
The colorbar test pattern was developed in the 1950s to test analog television systems. It revealed many things that went wrong with analog video. But even though the problems it revealed no longer exist in today's digital video world, we still use it. Yet there are many things that can go wrong with digital video that “bars and tone” won't reveal. This paper describes a new test pattern sequence that visually reveals many issues with digital video systems, including compression fidelity, colorspace mismatch, chroma downsampling, field-dominance reversal, and lip sync.
Publication Date
2011-10-01
DOI
10.5594/j18104
ISSN
Print: 1545-0279
Link
https://doi.org/10.5594/j18104
Author(s)
Norman Hurst
bio
Norm Hurst has been working in advanced video at Sarnoff Corp. since 1980 when it was RCA Labs. His work has included the DirecTV encoder/decoder prototypes, forensic watermarking, the Sarnoff MPEG Test Bitstreams, and the Grand Alliance HDTV system. Currently he is developing tools for testing digital video systems. He holds more than 30 patents.
Copyright
© 2011 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.
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