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Digital Video and HD
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Digital Video and HD

by Charles Poynton
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
736 pages
30h 54m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Frame, field, line,
and sample rates
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This chapter outlines the field, frame, line, and
sampling rates of 480i video,
576i
video, and HDTV.
The standard sampling frequency for component digital
video is exactly 13.5 AAHz; this rate produces an integer
number of samples per line in both 480i and 576i.
Modern systems such as HTDV sample at multiples of
this rate.
Field rate
Television
systems
originated with field rates based on
the local AC power line frequency: 60 Hz for North
America, and 50 Hz for Europe. In the 1940s and
1950s, coupling of the ripple of a receiver's ...
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ISBN: 9781558607927