SMPTE ST 274:2008

NOTE: This document bears an older designation (SMPTE 274M-2008). SMPTE changed their numbering style, and documents with the same root number (e.g. 274) and publication year (e.g. 2008) are functionally identical.

This standard defines a family of image sample structures for the representation of stationary or moving two-dimensional images sampled temporally at a constant frame rate and having an image format (sample structure) of 1920 x 1080 and an aspect ratio of 16:9.

This standard specifies multiple frame and field rate formats (Table 1) and eight-bit, ten-bit and twelve-bit systems. It is not necessary for an implementation to support all formats to be compliant with this standard. However, an implementation must state which of the formats are supported. Interfaces for twelve-bit systems require more than a single link.