LOW DEFINITION TV
With today's
A type of television providing a
quality of image usually compared
to VHS; this practically
corresponds to the collection of
television fragments videotaped
directly from the TV screen. The bit
rate offered is 1.5 Mbit/s (1.15 Mbit/s
for the video only), which corresponds
to the bit rate offered by the original
standard MPEG-1.
The term is usually used in reference
to digital television, in particular when
broadcastingat the same
(or similar) resolution
as low-definition
analog TV systems.
Mobile DTV systems usually transmit
in low definition, as do all slow- scan
TV systems.
STANDARD DEFINITION TV
Is a digital television (DTV) format
that provides a picture quality
similar to digital versatile disk (DVD).
SDTV and high definition television
(HDTV) are the two categories of
display formats for digital television
(DTV) transmissions, which are
becoming the standard. Because a
compressed SDTV digital signal is
smaller than a compressed HDTV
signal, broadcasters can transmit up
to five SDTV programs simultaneously
instead of just one HDTV program.
This is multicasting.
Multicasting is an
attractive feature because
television stations can receive
additional revenue from the
additional advertising these extra
programs provide.
analog television system, only one
program at a time can be transmitted.
RESOLUTION
480i (NTSC-compatible digital
standard employing two
interlaced fields of 243 lines each)
576i (PAL-compatible digital
standard employing two
interlaced fields of 288 lines
each)
HIGH DEFINITION TV
A television display technology that
provides picture quality similar to 35
mm. Movies with sound quality similar
to that of today's compact disc.
Some television stations have
begun transmitting HDTV broadcasts
to users on a limited number of
channels.
HDTV generally uses digital rather
than analog signal transmission.
However, in Japan, the
first analog HDTV program was
broadcast on June 3, 1989.
The first image to appear was the
Statue of Liberty and the
New York Harbor. It required a 20 MHz
channel, which is why analog HDTV
broadcasting is not feasible in most
countries.
RESOLUTION
720p (1,280 720 progressive
scan)
 1080i (1,920 1,080 split into
two interlaced fields of 540
lines)
1080p (1,920 1,080
progressive scan)
ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION TV
Ultra-high-definition (UHD)
television, also abbreviated
UHDTV, is a digital television
display format in which the
horizontal screen resolution is on the
order of 4000 pixels (4K UHD) or 8000
pixels (8K UHD).
Technically, a 4K UHD display has
3840 pixels horizontally and 2160
pixels vertically for a total of
8,294,400 pixels or 8.3 megapixels.
An 8K UHD display has 7680 pixels
horizontally and 4320 pixels
vertically for a total of 33,177,600
pixels or 33.2 megapixels. Therefore,
4K UHDTV has roughly four times
as many pixels as conventional
HDTV (high-definition television), and
8K UHDTV has roughly 16 times
as many pixels as conventional
HDTV.
RESOLUTION
2160p (3,840 2,160
progressive scan; aka "4K
UHD")
4320p (7,680 4,320
progressive scan; aka "8K
UHD")
8640p(15,360 8,640
progressive scan; a
speculated future standard)