The Worldwide ITU Dimension to DTV Standards

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 115, No. 10, pp. 418–428
Abstract: This article describes the progress made in the ITU-R during the 1980s and 90s to prepare international standards for digital terrestrial television systems. The last ITU-R meeting on this project was held in November 1996—almost 10 years ago—at which a set of Recommendations for digital broadcasting systems was agreed, laying the foundations for the global roll-out of DTV and HDTV terrestrial broadcast services.
Publication Date: 2006-10-01
DOI: 10.5594/J15135
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J15135
Author(s): Stanley Baron
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Stanley Baron obtained BSEE and MSEE degrees from New York University and was involved in the design and development of digital television systems over four decades, beginning in 1962. He was the inventor of the first commercially-available digital graphics generator for television applications. In 1980, he described a digital sampling structure and equipment interface for television that was compatible with existing 50 Hz and 60 Hz television broadcast standards. His proposal became the basis of the international standards for component 4:2:2 digital television. Baron retired at the end of 1998 as Managing Director, Television Technology for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in New York where he was responsible for the investigation, evaluation and implementation of new television technology. He served as Chairman of the Advanced Television Systems Committee, Technology Committee, (ATSC-T3), charged by the FCC with responsibility for documenting the digital Advanced Television System standard, and was elected by the member nations as Chairman of the ITU's Task Group, ITU/R-TG11/3, charged with responsibility for developing international agreements on digital terrestrial television broadcasting. Stan Baron is a Past-President of SMPTE. He also served two terms as SMPTE Engineering Vice-President with responsibility for supervising approximately 100 projects and approximately 600 professionals involved in developing U.S. and international technical standards. He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Television Society (U.K.), a Fellow of the SMPTE, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the BKSTS (U.K.).
David Wood
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David Wood is Head of New Technology at the EBU Headquarters in Geneva. He is a graduate of the Electronics Department at Southampton University in the UK and the Television Academy in Odessa, Ukraine. He worked for the BBC and the former IBA in the UK, before joining the EBU. Within the EBU, Wood works with the Digital Strategy Group of the Administrative Council, and a number of other groups involved with HDTV and new media.
Copyright: © 2006 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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