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    From SH@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 23 18:35:33 2023
    I have a CCTV system.

    there are 10 ANALOGUE modulators so I get a 2x2 mosaic of the first 4
    cameras on the 1st Mod and a 2x2 mosaic of the last 4 cameras on the 2nd
    mod and then the next 8 mods is one each for the 8 cameras.

    Now I use a 46 inch Plasma TV to view the 10 analogue channels. No
    problems in 10 years.

    This TV also coincidentally can do Freesat and Freeview.

    I the replace all 10 analogue modulators with DVB-T modulators and this
    is now combined into the Freeview feed.

    Then within days I now have screen burn in, you can see faint lines of
    the 2x2 mosaics and also of video edges such as between grass and paths.

    So why did I not suffer from screen burn in when viewing CCTV over
    analogue for 10 years but I now have screen burn in after a few days on
    DVB't modulators showing *EXACTLY* the same video content from these 8
    fixed cameras?

    If it makes any difference the old mods were doing 675 line PAL 25 Hz interlaced whereas the new Mods are doing 1080p 50 Hz non-interlaced.

    Stephen.

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  • From Graham.@21:1/5 to i.love@spam.com on Thu Feb 23 19:40:06 2023
    On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:35:33 +0000, SH <i.love@spam.com> wrote:

    I have a CCTV system.

    there are 10 ANALOGUE modulators so I get a 2x2 mosaic of the first 4
    cameras on the 1st Mod and a 2x2 mosaic of the last 4 cameras on the 2nd
    mod and then the next 8 mods is one each for the 8 cameras.

    Now I use a 46 inch Plasma TV to view the 10 analogue channels. No
    problems in 10 years.

    This TV also coincidentally can do Freesat and Freeview.

    I the replace all 10 analogue modulators with DVB-T modulators and this
    is now combined into the Freeview feed.

    Then within days I now have screen burn in, you can see faint lines of
    the 2x2 mosaics and also of video edges such as between grass and paths.

    So why did I not suffer from screen burn in when viewing CCTV over
    analogue for 10 years but I now have screen burn in after a few days on
    DVB't modulators showing *EXACTLY* the same video content from these 8
    fixed cameras?

    If it makes any difference the old mods were doing 675 line PAL 25 Hz >interlaced whereas the new Mods are doing 1080p 50 Hz non-interlaced.

    Stephen.


    675?? do you mean 576i, (traditionally called 625 lines if you include
    the VBI)

    Is the displayed contrast, or overall brightness, significantly higher
    from the digital source?


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  • From SH@21:1/5 to Graham. on Thu Feb 23 19:47:13 2023
    On 23/02/2023 19:40, Graham. wrote:
    On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:35:33 +0000, SH <i.love@spam.com> wrote:

    I have a CCTV system.

    there are 10 ANALOGUE modulators so I get a 2x2 mosaic of the first 4
    cameras on the 1st Mod and a 2x2 mosaic of the last 4 cameras on the 2nd
    mod and then the next 8 mods is one each for the 8 cameras.

    Now I use a 46 inch Plasma TV to view the 10 analogue channels. No
    problems in 10 years.

    This TV also coincidentally can do Freesat and Freeview.

    I the replace all 10 analogue modulators with DVB-T modulators and this
    is now combined into the Freeview feed.

    Then within days I now have screen burn in, you can see faint lines of
    the 2x2 mosaics and also of video edges such as between grass and paths.

    So why did I not suffer from screen burn in when viewing CCTV over
    analogue for 10 years but I now have screen burn in after a few days on
    DVB't modulators showing *EXACTLY* the same video content from these 8
    fixed cameras?

    If it makes any difference the old mods were doing 675 line PAL 25 Hz
    interlaced whereas the new Mods are doing 1080p 50 Hz non-interlaced.

    Stephen.


    675?? do you mean 576i, (traditionally called 625 lines if you include
    the VBI)

    Is the displayed contrast, or overall brightness, significantly higher
    from the digital source?



    sorry finger trouble!

    The DVR has composite video loop through for all 8 cams so its analogue
    625 line 25 Hz interlaced to the analogue modulators

    The new DVB-T modulators are fed from HDMI (I have TVI to HDMI
    converters) so this is the 1080p 50 Hz.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 23 19:48:04 2023
    SH wrote:

    So why did I not suffer from screen burn in when viewing CCTV over
    analogue for 10 years but I now have screen burn in after a few days on
    DVB't modulators

    Different darkest-black to lightest-white levels, is one equivalent to
    the 16-240 range and the other 0-255 range?

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  • From NY@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Fri Feb 24 09:20:16 2023
    "Andy Burns" <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote in message news:k5pu7qFsag2U1@mid.individual.net...
    SH wrote:

    So why did I not suffer from screen burn in when viewing CCTV over
    analogue for 10 years but I now have screen burn in after a few days on
    DVB't modulators

    Different darkest-black to lightest-white levels, is one equivalent to the 16-240 range and the other 0-255 range?

    The lack of burn-in on the analogue source may be due to timing jitter. With analogue, the graphics and the image (assuming a static camera) will be
    subject to small variations in timing, due to noise and analogue timing variations which will spread the effect if bright pixels horizontally by a small amount. With digital, a pixel at (x,y) in the image will always appear
    at exactly the same place on the screen without any slight random variation over time.

    Just a thought. I may be completely wrong ;-)

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  • From SH@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 24 10:06:42 2023
    On 24/02/2023 09:20, NY wrote:
    "Andy Burns" <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote in message news:k5pu7qFsag2U1@mid.individual.net...
    SH wrote:

    So why did I not suffer from screen burn in when viewing CCTV over
    analogue for 10 years but I now have screen burn in after a few days
    on DVB't modulators

    Different darkest-black to lightest-white levels, is one equivalent to
    the 16-240 range and the other 0-255 range?

    The lack of burn-in on the analogue source may be due to timing jitter.
    With analogue, the graphics and the image (assuming a static camera)
    will be subject to small variations in timing, due to noise and analogue timing variations which will spread the effect if bright pixels
    horizontally by a small amount. With digital, a pixel at (x,y) in the
    image will always appear at exactly the same place on the screen without
    any slight random variation over time.

    Just a thought. I may be completely wrong ;-)


    That certainly makes sense, as I do see "ringing" on composite video
    signals which is something I do not see on HDMI signals.

    S.

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  • From NY@21:1/5 to me@privacy.invalid on Fri Feb 24 09:23:06 2023
    "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote in message news:...
    The lack of burn-in on the analogue source may be due to timing jitter.
    With analogue, the graphics and the image (assuming a static camera) will
    be subject to small variations in timing, due to noise and analogue timing variations which will spread the effect if bright pixels horizontally by a small amount. With digital, a pixel at (x,y) in the image will always
    appear at exactly the same place on the screen without any slight random variation over time.

    Apologies: "the effect *of* bright pixels horizontally".

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to i.love@spam.com on Fri Feb 24 10:32:02 2023
    Dynamic range of the video is greater than analogue?
    Brian

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    "SH" <i.love@spam.com> wrote in message news:tt8bll$1u7pl$2@dont-email.me...
    I have a CCTV system.

    there are 10 ANALOGUE modulators so I get a 2x2 mosaic of the first 4
    cameras on the 1st Mod and a 2x2 mosaic of the last 4 cameras on the 2nd
    mod and then the next 8 mods is one each for the 8 cameras.

    Now I use a 46 inch Plasma TV to view the 10 analogue channels. No
    problems in 10 years.

    This TV also coincidentally can do Freesat and Freeview.

    I the replace all 10 analogue modulators with DVB-T modulators and this is now combined into the Freeview feed.

    Then within days I now have screen burn in, you can see faint lines of the 2x2 mosaics and also of video edges such as between grass and paths.

    So why did I not suffer from screen burn in when viewing CCTV over
    analogue for 10 years but I now have screen burn in after a few days on
    DVB't modulators showing *EXACTLY* the same video content from these 8
    fixed cameras?

    If it makes any difference the old mods were doing 675 line PAL 25 Hz interlaced whereas the new Mods are doing 1080p 50 Hz non-interlaced.

    Stephen.

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  • From NY@21:1/5 to i.love@spam.com on Fri Feb 24 11:07:19 2023
    "SH" <i.love@spam.com> wrote in message news:tta27g$1u7pl$4@dont-email.me...
    On 24/02/2023 09:20, NY wrote:
    "Andy Burns" <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote in message
    news:k5pu7qFsag2U1@mid.individual.net...
    SH wrote:

    So why did I not suffer from screen burn in when viewing CCTV over
    analogue for 10 years but I now have screen burn in after a few days on >>>> DVB't modulators

    Different darkest-black to lightest-white levels, is one equivalent to
    the 16-240 range and the other 0-255 range?

    The lack of burn-in on the analogue source may be due to timing jitter.
    With analogue, the graphics and the image (assuming a static camera) will
    be subject to small variations in timing, due to noise and analogue
    timing variations which will spread the effect if bright pixels
    horizontally by a small amount. With digital, a pixel at (x,y) in the
    image will always appear at exactly the same place on the screen without
    any slight random variation over time.

    Just a thought. I may be completely wrong ;-)


    That certainly makes sense, as I do see "ringing" on composite video
    signals which is something I do not see on HDMI signals.

    I'd forgotten about ringing: yes, that would smear point sources a bit so
    their effect may have not have killed pixels in the same way as 100% reproducible, sharp digital signals.


    I used to receive my TV through a cable feed when I lived in Bracknell. At
    one time they were trying to eliminate roof-top aerials so they wired up all the estates with cable, which was available free of charge for channels that you would otherwise have received through an aerial, with a charge for additional cable-only channels. I noticed that the cable channels had a lot
    of horizontal jitter: vertical lines were randomly wiggly and the ends of
    the lines (if you turned off the TV's overscan) were similarly wiggly. I presume this was due to noise in the line-sync pulses meaning that the TV
    was triggering its line scan at a variety of different times.

    The same is true of analogue VHS recordings: especially noticeable if I
    capture from VHS to MPEG, as compared (in the past) with capturing off-air
    to MPEG.

    Any device that produces its own raster (multiplexing multiple cameras to a single screen of thumbnails, or the SCART output from a Sky box, or BBC
    micro with 625/25 output) may produce an inferior spec of signal compared
    with a broadcast-standard signal (in the days when analogue was still broadcast).

    I remember trying to record the output from my ZX81 and my Spectrum, and finding that the liberties that Sinclair had taken with the PAL signal were tolerated by TVs but not by VHS recorders.

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