Hitachi's Reel60 processing technology eliminates 'judder'

Expanding a bit on the Reel60 technology first unveiled in a trio of 1080p sets from Hitachi, the company has reportedly developed a system that eliminates the "mismatch between the motion of films seen in a movie theater and the way that same motion appears on television." Dubbed "judders," these jagged edges will reportedly no longer be apparent on select Hitachi sets, as the Reel60 technology perfects the 3:2 pulldown process by "creating interpolated frames based on the original film images." Interestingly, it wasn't mentioned whether Hitachi would be holding on to its newfangled discovery or licensing it out to other manufacturers, but if anyone feels like coughing up the dough to pick up a P50V701, P50X901, or P60X901, be sure to test it out and sound off below.

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[(Unverified) Posted Sep 11th 2007 4:31PM]

Eliminating motion judder is not new at all. Philips invented it a long, long time ago with Digital Natural Motion. Eliminating it at FullHD resolutions however is. As far as I can tell this was initially achieved by the swiss company Micronas with their FRC chip. This has been licenced to Sharp, Grundig and Loewe. Next, JVC invented their own, called "clear motion drive". Now Philips have cracked the FullHD judder problem with "Perfect Pixel HD". Samsung has "movieplus" but this does not work at fullHD resolutions. I have not seen the Hitachi system in action but am very keen to do so. I have lived with motion corrected video for the last 7 years and cannot do without it now.