exemplary purposes and do not represent limitations of the present invention these parameters may have any suitable values in various embodiments depending on specific operational requirements in particular it should be expressly understood that the present invention is applicable to input frame rates fr in and output frame rates f out of 25 pps and 50 pps as well as underlying new picture rates nfr in of 25 pps and 50 pps which result from the use of equipment originating from europe and certain other regions of the world those skilled in the art will appreciate that in some embodiments the functionality of the image processing engine 100 may be implemented using pre programmed hardware or firmware elements e g application specific integrated circuits asics electrically erasable programmable read only memories eeproms etc or other related components in other embodiments the functionality of the image processing engine 100 may be achieved using a computing apparatus that has access to a code memory not shown which stores computer readable program code for operation of the computing apparatus in which case the computer readable program code could be stored on a medium which is fixed tangible and readable directly by the image processing engine 100 e g.