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http://hdtv.videotechnology.com/HDTV-CMOSvsCCD.htm "CMOS sensor technology has already enabled the development of visible focal plane arrays with ultra-low read noise and high sensitivity for the HDTV market. The successful integration of silicon photodetectors with low-noise pixel-based amplifiers in fine pixel pitch via state-of-the-art CMOS fabrication technology now not only suggests, but is demonstrating the imminent obsolescence of CCDs in high-quality HD broadcast applications.
The charge-couple device (CCD) has been the preferred visible image-capture sensor technology in a variety of applications from consumer digital cameras to expensive scientific instruments primarily due to its relative low-noise operation. However, the CMOS-based paradigm today offers fundamental performance advantages including optimum bandwidth and higher sensitivity. CMOS image sensors available today offer the lowest noise, lowest power consumption, 12-bit ADC performance of any HD sensor on the market. These sensors contain photodetectors optimized for low dark current, high quantum efficiency and high uniformity that operate at high HDTV data rates with lower noise than any CCD alternative.
The advantages of CMOS sensor technology have arrived and offer the HDTV broadcast and Professional Video markets the most advanced performance available."
HDTV, ato video high definition sudah menggunakan CMOS, berarti Masa depan CMOS lebih maju dari CCD.
Lantas siapa yang paling berjasa dalam mengembangkan teknologi CMOS??? ya tentu saja Canon. karena di saat yang lain beralih ke CCD, Canon tetap stick di CMOS, dan sekarang terbukti, banyak pesaingnya yang beralih kembali ke CMOS.
