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In 1982, the CCIR defined a standard for encoding interlaced analogue video signals in digital form mainly for studio applications. The current name of this standard is ITU-R BT.601 (ITU 1983). Following this standard, a video signal sampled at 13.5 MHz with a 4:2:2 sampling format (double the number of samples for the luminance component than for the two chrominance components) and quantized with 8 bits per component produces a raw bit rate of 216 Mbps. This rate can be reduced by removing the blanking intervals present in the interlaced analogue signal leading to a bit rate of 166 Mbps, which is still a figure far above the main capacity of usual transmission channels or storage devices.
The raw bit rate of a studio video sequence is 166 Mbps whereas the capacity of a terrestrial TV broadcasting channel is around 20 Mbps.
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Marqués, F., Menezes, M., Ruiz-Hidalgo, J. (2009). How are digital TV programs compressed to allow broadcasting?. In: Applied Signal Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74535-0_9
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