
1. History and domains
A few landmarks in the history of high-definition television are presented.
It all began with analog systems, which represented the light information from captured images as a continuous, proportional electrical signal:
From 1949 to 1984, France's 1 re television channel broadcast programs in black and white on 819 lines (737 visible picture lines), instead of the 625 or 525 lines of other systems;
The MUSE (Multiple Sub-Nyquist Encoding system) analog HDTV system, developed by Japanese television broadcaster NHK in 1979, was broadcasting programs on 1,035 active lines (1,125 total) in Japan until the end of 2007;
In 1986, based on the hybrid MAC (Multiplexed Analog Components) system (analog but using...
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Bibliography
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Understanding HD guide.
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Avid (2006)
http://www.avid.com/resources/Understanding_HD.zip
. An A-Z guide to terms for high definition television editing and post production. Edited by PANK (B.), Avid (2002)
Standards and norms
- Document A/53 Part 4-2009 - ATSC - 08-09
- Digital television standard: Part 4 – MPEG-2 Video system characteristics http://www.atsc.org/standards/a53/a_53-Part-4-2009.pdf - ATSC -
- Digital cinema" cinemas http://www.cst.fr/IMG/pdf/cst-rt-002-p-2001.pdf - CST-RT-002-P-2001 -
- Digital cinema system specification v1.2 http://www.dcimovies.com/DCIDigitalCinemaSystemSpecv1_2.pdf - Digital cinema Initiatives,...
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ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) http://www.atsc.org/
DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives LLC) http://www.dcimovies.com/
EBU (European Broadcasting Union)...
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