JVC Professional APRIL 2007 NAB-2007 The ProHD Report
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Fig. 17. DVCPRO-HD comes in both 1080i and 720p flavors. Both
formats reduce the bandwidth significantly prior to compression. This
diagram shows the 1280x720p60 mode, where luminance bandwidth is
reduced to 960 pixels horizontally from 1280, and chrominance to 480.
Panasonic claims this is 4:2:2 (and it is if you look at the 960/480
relationship) but, if you compare with full bandwidth 1280/640, it
computes to 3:1.5:1.5. DVCPRO-HD reduces the 1920x1080 down to
1280x1080 with color sub-sampling at 640, which becomes 2.7:1.3:1.3
referred to 4:2:2 full bandwidth.
The new HD CODECs
The new HD CODEC technologies comprise MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 in intra-frame
as well as GOP implementations, and JPEG2000 only in intra-frame.
Fig. 18. JVC’s ProHD Super Encoder technology, built into the GY-
HD250U, is the ONLY HD compression scheme available today capable
of delivering the full ATSC 1280x720 bandwidth at the full frame rate of
60p in a 20Mbps transport stream. All this in a HD ENG camcorder with
a US list price of $9,995. Color sub-sampling is 4:2:0.