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Sarnoff Shows New Test Patterns for 2D (and 3D?)

We had a chance to catch up with Norm Hurst from Sarnoff.  The company was showing some HD test patterns that were designed to replace the NTSC color bars of old.  Norm describes the new pattern as the “Swiss Army Knife”, designed to clearly delineate flaws and artifacts in originiation, compression, and display, including audio-video sync.  It was pretty cool…for those of us who can get excited about such things.

Sarnoff Digital Video Test Pattern

Perhaps even more interesting was continuing the discussions that Phil Lelyveld and Norm had started about the potential to create 3DTV test patterns that could be used to identify and isolate problems in 3D transmission and display.  Please let us know if you’d be interested in seeing (and potentially) funding such a thing!

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