Repeatable Video Testing Tools for Equipment Manufacturers

Bill Reckwerdt asked: This paper explores the challenges Video Equipment Manufacturers face when assessing video quality. Assessing video quality ultimately depends on the customer’s reaction on their new display (PC, POD, TV, etc.).Over the next decade, it is expected that digital television *********** into the general television market will increase from less than 5% in [...]

Video Testing for Broadcasters

Bill Reckwerdt asked: This paper explores the challenges Broadcasters face when assessing video quality. Many factors affect the video before it gets to the TV: compression, image processing, scaling, decoding, transmission, etc.Video processing and compression algorithms change the characteristics of the original program in the quest of reducing the bandwidth needed to send the programming [...]

How to Do Objective Video Testing

Bill Reckwerdt asked: Over recent decades, the role of video images has grown steadily. Advances in technologies underlying the capture, transfer, storage, and display of images have created situations where communicating using images has become economically feasible. More importantly, video images are in many situations an extremely efficient way of communicating as witnessed by the [...]