Digital TV Receiver for NTSC Color TV Signals with Dual Word-Length DPCM Coding

A video codec system for carrying one broadcast quality NTSC color TV channel at a rate of 42.935 Mbits/s has been proposed. The receiver of the video codec system is developed for recovery of the original signal. The receiver accepts a 42.935 Mbits/s serial TDM data stream with a synchronous clock from the Transmitter. The receiver detects the unique sync code and inserts a horizontal blanking pattern which has been removed from the transmitting data. The audio and video data are separated at the outputs of the demultiplexer. The 4/8 bit dual length code word of the video data is smoothed out by a buffer memory and fed to the DPCM reconstruction loop. The analog NTSC color video signal as well as the audio signal are reconstructed after the D/A conversion. This paper describes the design and development of the receiver portion (Fig. 1) of the codec which is capable of transmitting'one color signal at broadcast standards on a T3 digital link.