Widescreen Systems Course Syllabus
Widescreen Systems
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 availble to address the problem of delivering cinema wide-screen to the televsion viewer. The course aims to demonstrate the purpose and operation of the S&W Television Formatl Converter (ARC) and to identify the role to be played by widescreen television with the arrival of MPEG2 digital transmission.
The course is suitable for any practicing professional television personnel.
Course Syllabus
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Session 1 - Technical Aspects and Definitions
The standard television frame structure, defining aspec ratios, pixel arrays and resolution for the 625 and 525 line sytems. Film aspect ratios and processes, cinemascope, 760mm cinema widescreen, super 35, super 16 etc. Why widescreen? What is the optimum picture shape? Making compatible picture shapes. Terminology and definitions, letterbox, pillarbox, anamorphc. Sand P etc.
Session 2 - TheW idescreen Problem
Widescreen methods and standards. Digital anamorphic, PAL plus, letterbox. Current analogue TV practice, future possibilities under terrestrial and satellite digital transmission. Proposed requirements of the major UK broadcaster. Widescreen facilities under the DVC and DTG proposals. The MPEG decoder and the domestic receiver. What will the viewer be able to do?
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Session 3 - Format Conversion
What does it do and why do we need it? Overview of the Snell and Wilcox ARC. Setting up a conversion to the clients specification. Demonstration of current technology i.e. widescreen receivers, PAL plus decodng, letterbox etc.
Session 4 - Demonstration Aspec Ratio Conversion
Practical demonstration of the S&W ARC on various programme material. Seting up the ARC to non standard aspect ratios.
Discussion and course conclusion.
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.
© JOHN LISNEY March 1998