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1080i Mot Ion Evaluat Ion Tests: Warning!

1080i Motion Evaluation Tests This compilation of test material and this supplementary guide are primarily designed to help assess the motion handling characteristics of Panasonic plasma display panels built for 50Hz regions. Samples are created in both 50Hz and 60Hz variants. This compilation was built for playback from SD/SDHC flashcards. Unzip the contents and copy the folder named PRIVATE into the root of a FAT32 formatted card. Due to the nature of the AVCHD format, 50Hz and 60Hz content can

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1080i Mot Ion Evaluat Ion Tests: Warning!

1080i Motion Evaluation Tests This compilation of test material and this supplementary guide are primarily designed to help assess the motion handling characteristics of Panasonic plasma display panels built for 50Hz regions. Samples are created in both 50Hz and 60Hz variants. This compilation was built for playback from SD/SDHC flashcards. Unzip the contents and copy the folder named PRIVATE into the root of a FAT32 formatted card. Due to the nature of the AVCHD format, 50Hz and 60Hz content can

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1080i Motion Evaluation Tests

This compilation of test material and this supplementary guide are primarily designed to help assess the motion handling characteristics of Panasonic plasma display panels built for 50Hz regions. Samples are created in both 50Hz and 60Hz variants. This compilation was built for playback from SD/SDHC ashcards. Unzip the contents and copy the folder named PRIVATE into the root of a FAT32 formatted card. Due to the nature of the AVCHD format, 50Hz and 60Hz content cannot coexist on a single medium. Use two cards if testing in the eld or make sure you can copy/delete on location. All material is authored at 1080i 25FPS (50Hz) and 29.97FPS (60Hz), Upper elds rst, AVC - High Prole, Level 4.1 with a maximum bitrate of 18Mbps. All material is created by and is the property of the author of this compilation. You can freely publish and distribute this material and recompile/re-author it to suit your needs. Please only redistribute the compilation as a complete set with this guide included.

WARNING!
This video material can damage a display if new, or if the displays settings are set too aggressively. Do not pause or loop the material for extended periods. The author takes no responsibility for any damage to end users equipment resulting from misuse of this material. The video material in this compilation may also be dangerous to anyone at high risk of epileptic seizure. It is not recommended that anyone should view this material for extended periods.

Playback and Settings


Some of the tests have a short duration in order to keep the size of this compilation down and will need to be replayed several times for close assessment. Picture settings on the display will inuence how this test material appears. If the display is new or instore, Dynamic (torch mode) will need to be changed to something more suitable and Intelligent Frame Creation will probably need to be turned o also. Overscan defaults to - On in most modes and should not be used either. The display may also be in demo (shop) mode which will prevent you from using this material eectively. Familiarize yourself with this material before assessing a new display with it. If you do not have a suitable SD/SDHC capable playback device, the video clips can be found in the directory: PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMW/STREAM.

The Difference Between 50Hz and 60Hz


Framerate is a key dierence between 50Hz and 60Hz video. In this example, a ball is travelling across the screen from left to right. In both cases, it has the same amount of time to travel the same amount of distance.

The 50Hz sample has 25 unique frames every second. The 60Hz sample produces 30 frames in that same amount of space and time. With 50Hz having fewer frames, it results in larger spacing between consecutive frames, so there is a more abrupt jump from one frame to the next (compared to 60Hz). Sideways (lateral) motion is where this dierence becomes most obvious. This is something that aects every 50Hz capable display. No matter how well/poorly a display copes with the signals it is given, it is still at the mercy of this framerate defecit. Any shortcomings in the displays ability to handle lateral motion will be more noticable with 50Hz material compared to 60Hz material.

The Test Material


The very nature of moving video makes it dicult to reproduce in still photographs and captured video. Still cameras and video cameras do not see like we do and they often can't capture what we observe. They also tend to capture things that we cannot see. The following examples are purely illustrative. An artists impression. They do not convey the entire character of the material. They merely act as a point of comparison. These examples are created from what the author of this material witnesses on their Panasonic 50" V10 PDP. Dierent displays and picture settings may yield dierent results to these examples. At any time during playback, pausing the video will give you a still frame reference. Any anomalies that you see during playback that are not present in the paused frame, are introduced, unwanted artifacts from your display or playback device.

Basketball Pass
This will highlight resolution loss as the ball moves across the screen. The dimpling on the ball becomes more dicult to see (due to motion blur) if the display is not capable of resolving the full 1080 lines of resolution or if resolution is being lost due to poor deinterlacing. Note the distinct ghost image on the 50Hz sample.

50Hz

60Hz

Basketball Dolly*
This video is designed to highlight phosphor trailing. The 50Hz video shows distinct colour seperation, even during the slow part of the sample. The shadow of the ball looks like an oil slick and the seams and lettering on the ball are seen to ghost as the camera tracks from right to left. On the fast dolly back, there is large ghosting with a yellow/green leading edge and a purple/blue trail. The 60Hz video shows more stability on the slow dolly (right to left) but shows distinct green and blue trailing in the shadow and edge of the ball on the fast dolly back (left to right). * Dolly is a type of camera shot where the camera moves on a rail parallel to the subject.

50Hz

60Hz

Pitch Pan
This test shows the behaviour of white on green during lateral movement at various speeds. The 50Hz sample shows a distinct double image that gets wider apart as the speed increases. There is also a dark trailing image. The 60Hz sample shows a leading dark blue edge and a trailing yellow that is in close proximity to the white lines.

50Hz

60Hz

Approximate time point (00:00:2.00)

Tram Tracks - Slow


This test shows primary Red, Green and Blue colour bars including black and white. Each bar is spaced one bar apart. The 50Hz sample shows a thicker leading and trailing edge than the 60Hz counterpart. 50Hz 60Hz

Tram Tracks - Medium


Both examples show a thicker leading and trailing edge on each bar.

50Hz

60Hz

Tram Tracks - Fast


The 50Hz samples bleeding has started to overlap. The 60Hz sample is exhibiting faint ghosting trails. 50Hz 60Hz

Zone plate - Slow


This test is used to highlight multidirectional motion issues. The 50Hz sample shows a distinct red and blue patch in the innermost circle and slight posterisation in the direction the test pattern is moving. The 60Hz sample shows a leading blue edge and trailing yellow edge. 50Hz 60Hz

Zone plate - Medium


The posterisation and phosphor trailing has increased in both examples 50Hz 60Hz

Zone plate - Fast


A red hue is noticable in the center of the white rings of the 50Hz sample. The blue and yellow trailing on the 60Hz sample is more pronounced and vibrant and vertical waves in the rings can be seen more clearly. Both samples show greater compression artifacts.

50Hz

60Hz

Created in Zone Plate Creator v1.1 - by Tobias Fleischer

Copyright Fahrenheit 2011

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