Jeremiah Golston
Chief Technical Officer, TI Streaming Media

Through examples like Lifesize and digital camera, we have seen that there are various reasons for choosing to implement HD. We have also seen that the right mix of flexibility and system integration is critical. But is HD always necessary?

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Jeremiah Golston
Chief Technical Officer, TI Streaming Media

Based on my example in my last blog of Lifesize’s video conferencing application, it’s clear that best-in-class compression is one of the issues that has to be taken into account when implementing HD. But it is not the only one.

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Jeremiah Golston
Chief Technical Officer, TI Streaming Media

I’m continually surprised by the applications that are taking advantage of high definition (HD) video. The trade-offs from standard definition (SD) are negligible in some cases, and in other cases HD makes no sense at all. I would not be surprised to see even cell phones requiring some HD encoding support soon. Despite the limited screen size on the phone itself, camera phones will want to capture short high quality video clips to watch later in the home on a higher resolution display.

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