Optimal television scanning format for CRT-displays

At the time of introduction of the television, the video format was optimiz ed given both economical and technological constraints. The resulting video format is not necessarily optimal for the current display technology. More over, current consumer-level priced and state-of-the-art scan-rate converte rs enable a spatio-temporal decoupling of the received video and the displa yed video. This paper presents the results of a subjective assessment indic ating the preferred CRT-display format.