The broadcasting system of Korea is rapidly changing into digital mode. It is under way to transmit programs in both modes, digital and analog, until 2010, and after surveying the degree of distribution of digital television sets, broadcasting using a...
The broadcasting system of Korea is rapidly changing into digital mode. It is under way to transmit programs in both modes, digital and analog, until 2010, and after surveying the degree of distribution of digital television sets, broadcasting using analog mode will be ceased. Central and local broadcasting stations are preparing for the new era of broadcasting, purchasing digital broadcasting equipments, changing program producing facilities, educating producers, and planning to produce a leading test programs. Digital broadcasting makes it possible to provide high definition pictures, high quality of sound, and digital additional service, so it has advanced much more than analog broadcasting.
However, broadcasting stations waste a lot of financial resources without making more profit, and some experts in broadcasting industry keep on expressing different arguments skeptically about transmission system of the United States. Some broadcasting producers do not actively participate in the change of broadcasting into digital mode because they have difficulty in adapting to different techniques and circumstances and supplementing lack of production cost.
The final goal of Korean digital broadcasting is HD (High Definition) broadcasting. HD broadcasting provides much more advanced services than analog broadcasting, such as high definition pictures that are superior to the existing analog, with up to five times the improvement in detail, digital 5.1ch. surround sound, and a widescreen of which aspect ratio is 16 : 9.
The researcher is working for one of local terrestrial broadcasting stations, PSB (PuSan Broadcasting Co.), and produced a television program about a life story of Monk Kim Kyo-gak who were a prince of Shilla and took an active part in Guhwasan, Anhui in China, by using HD camera, and broadcasted it May in 2004.
This high quality HD TV image was produced as a form of still images of two million pixels by using HD capture board.
The HD broadcasting images, which had been broadcasted from May 10, 2004 to May 15, were printed into photographs, and the researcher held a photograph exhibition (Choi Yong-bu Photograph Exhibition - Finding a new vision of HD broadcasting) with the photos. In addition, photo collections using the still images, titled 'Meet Guhwasan Kim Ji-jang through HD camera,' was published. To show its usefulness in the net, the researcher also made a personal blog in Naver, one of the search engines (http://blog.naver.com/psbcam.do), so that the fact that we can use broadcasting images and contents regardless of time and space was proved. It was a try to show that using broadcasting images and contents in such a way has different and innovative informational meaning from providing with broadcasting programs in the form of moving pictures.
The main project of this thesis was to find out practically the way to use the still images, which were originally produced from moving pictures, in industry and art area except broadcasting.
This project showed that broadcasting images can be more meaningful as a record, overcoming the limit of them that they disappear after broadcasting just once, and that we can extend the life of broadcasting images by giving them a new meaning as a record.
Based on a survey conducted during the period of the photograph exhibition, it was found that many people agreed to the idea that there was a new way to use broadcasting images, and it gave people taking charge of broadcasting industry an opportunity to perceive the value of HD broadcasting images that can be a final goal of changes of digital broadcasting. In addition, the researcher examined the limits of this project in this thesis, and inspected the possibility about how they could be resolved as well.
This thesis might have a significant meaning in that it is a case that shows a new feasibility in HD broadcasting image for the first time in the literature.