Hey BKM....need your help re: serial digital

[Fission]

So the whole NTSC thing....Is the term SDI replacing/or mean the same thing as CCIR-601? I've heard it used as meaning the same thing, but wanted to hear what some others may know about it. I'm not sure about it (Serial Digital Interface) because I thought it was something that was used in studios for things like transferring and duplication of an uncompressed signal. (Unless its always been around and thats how they carry signals and they just use that term more recently...serial digital)

When I started...NTSC CCIR-601 was just your basic telly signal for the most part. Some of this business gets so bloody confusing, maybe ignorance is bliss...lol

[Hugh]

Where I work, pretty much everything is transfered around the facility as SDI (or sometimes HD SDI ;))

I've heard of CCIR-601, but I'm not sure I've ever used it myself...

[pingking]

CCIR 601 is the old name of a standard published by the CCIR (now ITU-R) for encoding interlaced analogue video signals in digital form. It includes methods of encoding 525-line 60 Hz and 625-line 50 Hz signals, both with 720 luminance samples and 360 chrominance samples per line. The colour encoding system is known as , that being the ratio of Y:Cb:Cr samples (luminance data:blue chroma data:red chroma data). For a pair of pixels, the data is stored in the order Y1:Y2:Cb:Cr, with the chrominance samples co-sited with the first luminance sample. The CCIR 601 signal can be regarded as if it is a digitally encoded analog component video signal, and thus includes data for the horizontal and vertical sync and blanking intervals. Regardless of the frame rate, the luminance sampling frequency is 13.5 MHz. The luminance sample is at least 8 bits, and the chrominance samples are at least 4 bits each. The first version of CCIR 601 defined only a parallel interface, but later versions introduced the bit-serial versions that are now commonly used. The 8-bit serial protocol (216 Mb/s) was once used in D1 digital tape recording. Modern standards use an encoding table to expand the data to 9 or 10 bits. The 9-bit serial version has a data rate of 243 Mb/s. The 10-bit version used in D5 digital tape recording has a data rate of 270 Mbits/s. There is an 8-bit version in which only data from the active video periods are transmitted, with a bit rate of only 165.9 Mbit/s. In each 8-bit luminance sample, the value 16 is used for black and 235 for white, to allow for overshoot and undershoot. The values 0 and 255 are used for sync encoding. The Cb and Cr samples use the value 128 to encode a zero value, as used when encoding a colourless area. The CCIR 601 video raster format has been re-used in a number of later standards, including MPEG.

*found by google*

so it is the same

[BKM]

WOW! a subject addressed to me.... sorry I missed the first post.

But yes... 601 is SDI they are one in the same.

There is a Parallel Digital that is used in Sony D2 machines.. it is a composite digitial (sucks) It think panasonic D3 used the same parallel digital signal since it was composite as well.