Abstract: A video processing system directly upsamples cinema material to a video frame rate that is a multiple of the fundamental cinema frame rate of 24 frames per second. A video display processor is configured to directly accept video images at a variety of frame rates, including the cinema frame rate of 24 fps. A frame buffer is suitably configured to accept the video images at the recorded frame rate and provides a corresponding video stream at a frame rate that is an integer multiple of the recorded frame rate. By providing the video stream at this frame rate, the anomalies and artifacts caused by non-integer or non-uniform upsampling are avoided. Correspondingly, a video processor is configured to provide the video images at standard television resolutions, but at the original recorded frame rate, to minimize temporal anomalies and artifacts.

Abstract: A digital video interface device interfaces a digital video signal transmitted from a first, source, digital video processing device to a plurality of second digital video processing devices. The digital video interface device receives a digital video signal having a transition minimized differential signaling (TMDS) format, translates the received digital video signal to a second signaling format, buffers the translated digital video signal to produce a plurality of substantially identical buffered translated digital video signals, and translates each of the plurality of substantially identical buffered translated digital video signals back to the TMDS format.