Picture-in-picture

Picture-in-picture
TV/monitor displaying Wikipedia page along with TV channel inside PiP at top right corner

Picture in Picture (PiP) is a feature of some television receivers and similar devices. One program (channel) is displayed on the full TV screen at the same time as one or more other programs are displayed in inset windows. Sound is usually from the main program only.

Picture in Picture requires two independent tuners or signal sources to supply the large and the small picture. Two-tuner PiP TVs have a second tuner built in, but a single-tuner PiP TV requires an external signal source, which may be an external tuner, VCR, DVD player, or a cable box. Picture in Picture is often used to watch one program while waiting for another to start, or advertisements to finish.

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History

Adding a picture into an existing picture was done long before affordable PiP was available on consumer products. The first PiP was seen on the televised coverage of the 1976 Montreal Olympics where a Quantel digital framestore device was used to insert a close-up picture of the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony. In 1980, NEC introduced its "Popvision" television (CV-20T74P) [1] in Japan with a rudimentary picture-aside-picture feature: a separate 6" (15 cm) CRT and tuner complemented the set's main 20" (50 cm) screen. It was pricey: its ¥298,000 MSRP was equal to about $1,200 (at $1 = ¥250 [2]), and $1,200 in 1980 had the approximate buying power of $3,000 in 2007 [3].

An early consumer implementation of Picture-In-Picture was the Multivision set-top box; it was not a commercial success. Later PiP became available as a feature of advanced television receivers.

The Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD specifications included picture in picture, allowing viewers to see, say, the director's comment on a film they are watching. All of the Blu-ray Disc titles in 2006 and 2007 that had a PiP track used two separate HD encodings with one of the HD encodings including a hard coded PiP track. Starting in 2008 Blu-ray Disc titles started being released that use one HD and one SD video track which can be combined together with a Bonus View or BD-Live player. This method uses less disc space allowing for PiP to be more easily added to a title. Several studios have released Bonus View PiP Blu-ray Disc titles in 2008 such as Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Resident Evil: Extinction, V for Vendetta, and War.[1][2][3][4]

Picture and Picture

Picture and Picture (PAP, P&P) (commonly referred to as PBP - Picture by Picture) is a related feature showing two programs side-by-side on the screen, with the sound from one program being played through the speakers, and the sound from the other being sent to headphones.

Picture and Text

A somewhat similar function is called Picture and Text (PAT). With it the screen is divided in two, one for the TV program and one for a teletext page (if available).

References

  1. ^ Peter M. Bracke (2008-04-18). "Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem". High-Def Digest. http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1369/alienvspredatorrequiem.html. Retrieved 2008-05-18. 
  2. ^ Joshua Zyber (2008-01-07). "Resident Evil: Extinction". High-Def Digest. http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1212/residentevilextinction.html. Retrieved 2008-05-18. 
  3. ^ Peter M. Bracke (2008-05-14). "V for Vendetta". High-Def Digest. http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/373/vforvendetta.html. Retrieved 2008-05-18. 
  4. ^ Kenneth S. Brown (2008-01-18). "War". High-Def Digest. http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1189/war.html. Retrieved 2008-05-18. 

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