Table of Contents
* Introduction
* The Reality of Video Systems
o What is a Video System?
o What Are the Video Systems?
+ Other Video Systems
o Frame-Based and Field-Based Video
o Frame Rate or Field Rate and the Magic M (30/1.001, not 29.97)
o Picture Aspect Ratio
o Total Lines Per Frame: There's More Than You Thought
+ Video Line Numbering
+ Field Names: F1 and F2
+ How Big is the Picture?
o How Fields Weave into a Frame
o Analog Electrical Standards
o Digital Electrical Standards
o Non-Square Pixels and Pixel Aspect Ratio
+ What Pixels are Square? How Non-Square is Non-Square?
+ Computer Industry Mass Confusion on Pixel Aspect Ratio
+ SMPTE RP 187-1995 to the Rescue—Or Not
o The Standard-Def Pixel Debacle
+ Old-School Equipment Doesn't Care Where the Picture Ends
+ The Result: Chaos
+ The De Facto Standard
o SMPTE RP 187-1995 to the Rescue Again—Sort Of
+ The Good News: Apertures
+ The Bad News: Bad SD Choices
o HD: They've Seen the Light!
o Computer Representations of Video
* The 480i/60M Video System
o Vital Statistics
o Sampling
+ Square-Pixel Sampling
+ Non-Square-Pixel Sampling
* The 576i/50 Video System
o Vital Statistics
o Sampling
+ Square-Pixel Sampling
+ Non-Square-Pixel Sampling
* The 1080i/60M and 1080i/50 Video Systems
o Vital Statistics
o Sampling
* The 720p/60M and 720p/50 Video Systems
o Vital Statistics
o Sampling
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