European HDTV will hold an edge over ATSC in broadcast resolution...
European HDTV will hold an edge over ATSC in broadcast resolution thanks to wider bandwidth afforded hi-def channels there, Joe Flaherty, a veteran CBS engineer and one of ATSC’s founding fathers, told a London seminar last week. “If America…
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had had 8-megahertz terrestrial channels instead of only 6 megahertz when we were planning HDTV, we never would have transmitted interlace,” Flaherty said. “If I were a European today, I'd just go ahead with 1080p/50,” he said: “I'd want to preserve that quality advantage you Europeans always used to have with PAL over NTSC.” Flaherty spoke at the annual John Logie Baird lecture held by the Institute of Engineering & Technology, named after the British inventor credited with pioneering TV and other advancements.