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Welcome to HD169 Productions
On this website you will find videos recorded with one of my cameras the Ultra High Definition / High Definition Video Handycam from Sony or the action Cameras from Contour, links to websites that I find interesting or sites that I have made for others. You will also find information about myself and much more .....
Trivia:
The first two letters of HD169 mean high definition. (Hereafter HD)
Although HD is actually a generic term for High Definition, they are in fact different formats developed by different manufacturers.
The three digits of HD169, standing for 16 and for 9. 16 : 9 is a well-known widescreen format.
The width of the picture is 1.78 as big as the height. It is the standard aspect ratio of widescreen TVs and HDTV.
Ergonomic comes 16: 9 (1.78- 1) Close to the ratio 1.75-1, the ratio of the human field of view.
You can see how quickly this technology developed in recent years, although the first High Definition products from the 1970s were mainly sold in Japan, the first steps were taken in the development of the DVB C, T and S in Europe in the early 1980s.
the compression technique of the current TVs.
As mentioned above as HD (High-Definition) meant two first letters, this means that the TV or recordings have a minimum resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels. (FHD) Full High Definition.
In the 90s there was an intermediate format (HD Ready) which had a resolution of 1280x720, the first flat TVs used this format.
Ultra High Definition format, which includes both 3840 x 2160 (4K) and 7680_4320 (8K) resolution is the new standard at the time of writing, The current common resolution is 4K. but the 8K resolution can now be found in the store.
Most standard TVs have a 16: 9 ratio