

Things went pretty swell during its development, until a few months before the completion of the standard. So, when ITU and then MPEG set out to establish the mandates for a new video standard capable of superseding H264, it was decided that interlacing was old enough, did more harm than good and it was time for retirement: HEVC was going to be the first video codec to officially deprecate interlacing. People saying that interlacing saves bandwidth do not know much about video coding and bad marketing claiming that higher resolution is better than higher framerate has an effect too. In case you are not familiar, interlacing is a mess to support, makes decoding slower and heavily degrades quality. However as with black and white, TACS and Gopher, old technology has to be replaced with modern and efficient technology, as a trade off of users' interests and technology providers' market prospects.
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This technique was preserved when flat panels for pc and tv were introduced, for a mix of backward compatibility and technical limitations, and video coding features interlacing in MPEG2 and H264 and similar. This more or less worked because it mimicked how television worked back then. And how it nearly ruined another video coding standard.Įveryone knows that interlacing was a trick in the '80s for pseudo motion compensation with analogue video.
