This is a tutorial I put together to explain the various video terminology that many people wish they know.

1. Tee Yong Lim
Video Demystified

2. TV Resolutions
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3. Standard Definition vs. High Definition
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4. Deinterlacing
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• Bob
• Weave
• Motion Adaptive
• Motion Vector Adaptive
• Pixel based Motion Adaptive

5. Film to Broadcast TV
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6. 3-2 Pull down
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7. Reverse 3-2 Pull Down
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8. Cadence Detection
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• Multiple types of Cadences (NTSC, not PAL)
• Film based, 3-2 pulldown
• Vari-Speed Broadcast, 3-2-3-2-2 (drop 1 field every 12 fields for adding commercials)
• 6:4 or 5:5 pull-down for US Cartoons (12 Frames/sec)
• 8:7 Pull-down for Japanese Cartoons (8 Frames/sec)

9. Noise Reduction
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• Temporal Noise Reduction
• Motion compensated Noise reduction
• MPEG mosquito noise reduction

10. Video Scaling
• Letterbox: 16:9 aspect ratio on 4:3 TV
• Expand (what is in his left hand?)
• Not an ideal solution since video is cropped
• Deal with the black bars
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11. What is an Anamorphic DVD anyway?
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An "Enhanced" anamorphic picture upon a 4:3
ratio screen
A letterbox picture upon a 4:3 ratio screen
An "Enhanced" anamorphic picture corrected to
fill a 16:9 ratio screen

12. Dramatic impact of Widescreen DVD
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13. Video Scaling (High Definition)
• Pillar Box
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Expand Stretched

14. A comparison of AMD vs. nVidia
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15. Advance Topics
• Comb filters
• 2D and 3D
• Scaling and Cropping
• Scaling on TV
• Upconverting standard definition to High Definition
• Frame Rate conversions
• Display calibration
• MPEG Encoding
• MPEG2, SD and HD vs. MPEG 4 H.264
• Silicon Suppliers, various strengths and weaknesses
• High End Video processing Silicon and Equipment
• LCD TV, Plasma TV
• Scalers, upconverters etc.
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