One of the benefits that we derive from DTV is the choice of scanning formats and frame rates it affords. For some time, much television production and post production has been done in the component ...

All right, all this talk about progressive scan broke me down. Recently, I picked up a Samsung TXM3096WHF TV and upgraded to a Toshiba SD-5700 DVD player all for the purpose of checking out ...

A simple explanation for how TV works is that a transmission signal sends information to your TV. The information tells the TV what the picture is supposed to look like. Once received, the TV paints ...

Although European terrestrial broadcasters, cable operaters, and satellite broadcasters have been broadcasting DTV for several years, they have, until recently, largely avoided HDTV. Probably in part ...

As consumers, we're intimately familiar with video systems in many embodiments. However, from the embedded developer's viewpoint, video represents a tangled web of different resolutions, formats, ...

Black and white NTSC is simple – it can, and was, done with vacuum tubes for a long, long time. Color is just weird, though. It runs at 29.976 frames per second, uses different phases of the carrier ...