[Tig] what are we going to do (monitors)--Fox TV Station group in same boat

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rob Lingelbach wrote:
> reading in the same article that Fox needed 1.5Gigabits per second for
> uncompressed HD, led me to research that a bit, and I couldn't find a
> definitive answer.  Is the figure correct?   I did the math and it
> seemed a low figure..  (could be I'm not introducing some multiplier)

Transmitted HD video is likely to be 4:2:2 YcbCr (effectively already 
somewhat compressed).  Without transmission overhead, that seems to 
take 1.3Gbits/second so 1.5Gbits/second is about right.  That would be 
one HD-SDI link, right?

Bob
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