SMPTE 259M is a

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published by

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which "describes a 10-bit serial digital interface operating at 143/270/360 Mb/s." The goal of SMPTE 259M is to define a

serial digital interface Serial digital interface (SDI) is a family of digital video Interface (computing), interfaces first standardized by SMPTE (The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) in 1989. For example, ITU-R BT.656 and SMPTE 259M define digital ...

(based on a

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), called SDI or SD-SDI. There are 4

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s defined, which are normally used to transfer the following standard video formats:

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