Including 1080i and including interlace in HEVC are two different things. 1080i has always been included in HEVC. It can be coded as 1920x1080 at 29.97 progressive frames per second (not recommended) or as 1920x540 at 59.94 progressive fields per second. There are no interlace tools in HEVC. However, there are proposals to make HEVC at least be usable for interlaced sequences by adding metadata that describes the field sequence. For example, there's no way to signal a repeat field in HEVC (which seems like a step backward). These "interlace helper" proposals are coming from encoder/decoder companies such as Ambarella, Harmonic, Broadcom and Ateme. Ateme has also noted that coding 1080i as 1920x540@xxxxx causes chroma problems due to field misalignment (chroma "bleed"). I don't see anyone from CBS attending the HEVC meetings. Do you have a reference for your comment or is it just water cooler talk? Ron On 10/22/2012 9:11 AM, Mark A. Aitken wrote:
Which leads me to another question??? Why is CBS (and dragging Sony & others) so adamant about making sure 1080i is included in the upcoming h.265 spec? Is there more than religion at stake here?Thanks...Mark (the other one...)