You know, the Sony announcement bears close inspection....
sel.sony.com
Here's what caught my attention in the context of knowing that Sony is a licensee of Ampex's pool of patents etc.....
According to Nishida, Sony's approach to digital TV encompasses expertise from its R&D labs, consumer A/V business, broadcast and professional businesses and entertainment content resources.
To take advantage of the many broadcasting options of the new digital television signal, Sony has developed two proprietary technologies: Digital Reality Creation (DRC) and Multi Image Driver (MID) circuitry.
Palumbo said that DRC upconverts standard definition video signals from sources including broadcast TV, cable, videotape, digital satellite systems, DVD and WebTVT Internet terminals to four times their original image resolution, delivering a picture approaching high-definition quality.
According to Palumbo, Sony's HDTV set also features Multi Image Driver (MID) circuitry to simultaneously view images from digital and analog sources, regardless of the digital sources' format. MID circuitry has a Twin-ViewT function that can display two signal sources (WebTV and NTSC or HD and NTSC, for example) on the same screen by converting both signals to 480P quality. |
