David Heath |
June 11th, 2009 03:26 PM |
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Originally Posted by Robert M Wright
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The major studios aren't likely to start shooting at 60fps commonly in the foreseeable future either (major motion picture movies will continue to be 24fps productions for a long time to come).
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This is why it's so important to distinguish between transmission and acquisition.
And as I said before, even if 1080p/50 never got transmitted as much, it still becomes valuable because it downconverts extremely well to any other 50fps format - 1080i/25, 720p/50, or 576i/25 for that matter.
Which is why the EBU are extremely keen for it to be adopted as a common ACQUISITION and interchange format within Europe as soon as practicable. It's widespead use would mean that neither 1080i or 720p broadcasters would be disadvantaged when material is interchanged - it would downconvert perfectly to either, as if their native format had been originated in the first instance.
Don't take my word for it - look at the EBUs website, EBU Technical Review , click "HDTV", and for starters look at item 308 - "HDTV — EBU format comparisons at IBC 2006". Even over two years ago, they were saying:
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Our work suggests that the 1080p/50 format is of high value for content capturing, whatever the emission format. The 720p/50 format derived from a 1080p/50 (or higher spatial source) format was of very high quality.
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Hence, as regards the original question of this thread, 720p is likely to die out relatively quickly as far as cameras are concerned (as soon as 1080p/50 becomes mainstream) - or at least become a distinct second best, but be important for a lot longer as a transmission format.
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