High Definition Television Technology Course Syllabus
High Definition Television Technology (HDTV)
A 1 day course
This course can be provided 'in-house' on request
Course Outline
The course sets out the concepts and methods that are now available to address the problem of acquiring and delivering HDTV picture and associated sound to the television viewer. The course aims to define the purpose and implementation of the Global HDTV Standard, and to identify the role to be played by HDTV within MPEG 2 digital transmission, and DVD optical disc technology.
Course Syllabus
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Session 1 - Technical Aspects and Definitions
The standard television frame structure, defining aspect ratios, pixel arrays and resolution for the 625 and 525 line SD systems. Widescreen considerations, anamorphic, or non anamorphic? The 1k SD system. Interlace versus progressive scanning.
Session 2 - The HDTV aims HDTV Standards
The main purpose of HDTV systems, the aspect ratio problem, earlier analogue HDTV systems, 1125/60, 1250/50, 1050/60. The global HDTV standard, 2k HDTV system, 1080/24p, why? SHD standards 4k system, discussion of the Quantel SHD system (DOMINO).
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Session 3 - HDTV Equipment Specifications
Parameters and specification of Sony HDCam systems. The Panasonic D5 HD VTR, HD Standards conversion, down and up conversion. Display systems, definition of the requirement. The crt versus gas plasma and the LCD projector. Delivery to the consumer of HDTV via digital terrestrial, satellite cable and optical disk.
Session 4 - Definition and Demonstration of Sound Systems for HDTV
Definition of Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Audio, MPEG 5.1, DTS, and others. Multi Channel sound in the home. The Home Cinema environment, virtual home cinema helmets?
Important note
In order to ensure that course content is up to date, published JLA syllabus documents are constantly under review. Thus course content may not be exactly in line with the topics indicated above.