Thanks.

I'm hoping someone gets a chance soon to try HDMI capture and see if 60p might be obtainable out HDMI.

Wow
 

Wow, I have been a professional editor for 10 years and didnt know that. So, for example, The World Series, on FOX HD local, which has that live quality, could actually be progressive? Thats amazing. I've never even heard it discussed in editor circles before.

What kind of camera can actually pull this "60p looks-like-live camera" off? And is it possible to turn it into 30p in post, if one decides they want the more filmic look after the fact? How flexible.

Where are more examples of this being broadcasts?

Color me surprised.

-Christopher

Fox, ESPN, ABC are all 720p at 60p. There are quite a few 60p cameras starting under 10K and going all the way to the top including JVC new ProHDV cams. Even the new JVC HD110 does 60p off analog component.

You can turn 60p into 30p or 24p with the same motion blur/artificating issues as with turning 60i into 30p or 24p.

Shouldn't 60p have twice the information as 60i to work with in creating 30p or 24p? Isn't 60p to 30p a matter of just drawing alternate frames with no de-interlacing?

You won't lose resolution going from 60p to 30p or 24p since you are basically throwing out frames, but because 60p is shot with 1/60th or faster shutter speed, you will need to post process if you want 1/48th shutter look which can result in artifacts or some softness. With many 60p cams also shooting 24p, the best course is to shoot 24p when thats the look you want.

And JVC's coming CONSUMER HD camcorder is 1080/60p to 30GB hard disk. The V1's ClearVid is step 1 of Sony's move to progressive.

I submit it would be more accurate to say that the V1 is Sony's move into low-end progressive. HDCAM has always been progressive, XDCam as well.

Steve, further on this because you (and the article you linked to) introduced a lot of confusion. I'd appreciate it if you gave us some more details on how de-interlacing was implemented on those displays that failed vs those that passed the test. While I still doubt it very much that I wouldn't notice a 50% resolution drop, I'd like to be able to educatively pick the right display to check the V1's 50i vs 25p modes, after I can finally put my hands on it. Also, is there a software or resolution charts (as those mentioned in the article in question) available somewhere? TIA

Piotr

You are correct, but what I really meant to say step towards 1080/60p.

Here's a link to my HDV@Work story on "What is 1080?"

Everyone buying an HDTV should stay on top of this topic should regularly visit:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/index.php?

What's sad is in my story I noted that more sets in 2006 should pass when more failed.

My Sony A10 passed which is why I bought it. BUT, passing does not mean there are no artifacts FROM deinterlacing as I found AFTER buying.

Passing simply means "bob" is not used. My set uses regional deinterlacing which means ONLY the moving objects lose V. rez. I can far too often see a region lose 50% resolution.

A good interlacer can cost $10,000 or more.

There are 4 interlace sins:

1) Line flicker
2) Line Twitter
3) MPEG-2 artifacts caused by the separate encoding of fields
4) Deinterlacing artifacts

Which is why the world is moving to progressive.

The problem is that OTA is limited to 1080i when MPEG-2 is used. Premium services like HBO HD can use MPEG-4 and Bluray can use 1080p, but if MPEG-2 is used the much higher data rate requires 50GB discs. But, Sony may use AVC eventually. There is a lot of pressure to move past MPEG-2 given the steller performance of VC-1 on HD DVDs.

Having said this, the majority of 1080i looks great!

And, remember that 720p ALWAYS looks a bit softer than top quality 1080i. So you can imagine how great 1080p will look in a few years!

Steve,

Are you saying blu-ray does not support VC-1? It does. Both formats support MPEG-2, H.264 & VC-1 encodings.

The new Superman movie will be available in both formats with a 1080p VC-1 encoding for example.

Of course not. The question is will any studios in the BR camp pay MS for VC-1? AVC is licensed from the MPEG group and not MS. My assumption is that Sony, at least, will not pay money to MS.

But, given the poor reviews of BR using MPEG-2 (despite a very public claim by Sony that MPEG-2 is the BEST codec) studios may change their minds. And, that may include Sony.

But, perhaps its the players not the codec which is why the Sony is delayed.

Now I'm confused. I though Blu-ray supported the MPEG4-Part 10/AVC. That MPEG 2 was for backward compatibility.

Steve,

That is well worth repeating, and repeating and repeating.. interlaced must go, interlaced must go.. :-)

I have more trouble with interlaced recovery that any single element in video production. Period.

Fixing those things is probably more a by product of going progressive. Display devices are going progressive because the underlying technology--LCD, DLP, plasma, LCOS--is progressive. If analog broadcasts to CRTs were the only available technology, we would probably still be interlaced.