CHAPTER 1.14 Worldwide Standards for Digital Television
ALDO CUGNINI
AGC Systems LLC Long Valley, New Jersey
HIROSHI ASAMI
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Tokyo, Japan
DAVID WOOD
European Broadcasting Union Geneva, Switzerland
INTRODUCTION
When the possibility of digital transmission of television signals became apparent in the late 1980s, various efforts were started to define a new, worldwide set of standards for digital image capture, manipulation, storage, and distribution. The most well known of these were assembled under the auspices of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), a working group of the International Organization for Standards (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). At about the same time, ...
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