| For television it means that if the picture
is intended for interlace displays the picture must be
vertically filtered to remove this objectionable flicker
with a reduction of vertical resolution. According to the
Kell factor the reduction is to about 85%, so a 576 line PAL
interlace display only has about 480 lines vertical
resolution, and a 486 line NTSC interlace display has a
resolution of approximately 410 lines vertical. Similarly,
1080i digital interlaced video would need to be filtered to
about 910 lines for an interlaced display, although a fixed
pixel display (such as LCD) eliminates the inaccuracies of
scanning, and thus can achieve Kell factors as high as 95%
or 1020 lines. Fixed pixel array displays such as LCDs,
plasmas, DLPs, LCoS, etc. need a "scaling" processor with
frame memory, which, depending on the processing system,
effectively converts an incoming interlaced picture into
progressive. A similar process occurs in a PC and its
display with interlaced video (e.g., from a TV tuner card).
The downside is that interlace motion artifacts are almost
impossible to remove resulting in horizontal "toothed" edges
on moving objects.
Also in analog connected picture displays such as CRT TV
sets, the horizontal scanlines are not divided into pixels,
and therefore the horizontal resolution is related to the
bandwidth of the luminance and chroma signals. For
television, the analog bandwidth for luminance in standard
definition can vary from 3 MHz (approximately 330 lines
edge-to-edge; VHS) to 4.2 MHz (440 lines; live analog tv) up
to 7 MHz (660 lines; DVD). In high definition the bandwidth
is 37 MHz (720p/1080i) or 74 MHz (1080p/60).
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