Overview of Standards and Technical Reports

Overview of ARIB Technical Report (TR-B4)

1. Overview

TR Number ARIB TR-B4
Technical Report Name Safety Zone on a Screen with an Aspect Ratio of 16:9
Enactment Date 04.22.1997
General Description

This technical report specifies a safety zone in the program production of television broadcasting with an aspect ratio of 16:9, such as digital broadcasting, and provides a guideline.

This technical report is applied to the reproduction range of screen representations in television broadcasting with a ratio of 16:9.


2. Amendment History

Ver. Amendment or Enactment Date Amendment summary
3.0 03.25.2016 Addition of parameters regarding a safety zone for UHDV considering the amendment of the ITU Recommendation BT.1848 (Safe areas of wide-screen 16:9 aspect ratio digital productions) in October 2015. The ratio of the parameters for UHDTV is same as for HDTV, considering displaying HDTV images down-converted from UHDTV images.
2.0 03.18.2009

Change of the important information range of a current safety zone provided in Chapter 3 to 90%

Addition of specifications of a target safety zone, preparing for decrease of 16:9 CRT receivers, in Chapter 4.

Addition of explanations regarding a background of this amendment and the discussion

1.1 07.27.2001 BTS is given as Annex.
1.0 04.22.1997 Enactment

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