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broadcast quality pictures...???...

Hello,

A friend of mine told me about a combination of image enhancement machines that are not 'allowed' to be used together because the result would be so good that it equals direct broadcast view. Not all image data are actually used, he told me.

Perhaps I misunderstood him..... so I ask you, experts, to lighten this tunnel a bit ....

Is it so that in a component (what is BNC HV ??) environment, progressive scan and (as an example) a line quadrupler combined result in this kind of broadcast quality?

Is there a way then, to improve the quality of an image in such a way that the equipment makers jointly prevent that an image can be improved so dramatically (copyrights) ?

Thanks,
Piet
piet

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avideo
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I've worked in the television industry for nearly 20 years; and think you need to know there is no such "standard" as broadcast quality. It is nothing more than a meaningless term used by various sales types and promoters to "impress" the uninformed.
Almost any type of video can be "broadcast" - even lowly VHS tapes (think America's Funniest Videos) and fuzzy videophones (think of early coverage of the Afghanistan conflict).
Perhaps your "friend" was trying hard to impress you with his so-called "knowledge". Though I seriously doubt he "knows" something that any broadcast engineer doesn't already know.
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