Report from Digital Video Broadcasting

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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: 122, No. 6, pp. 58–59
Abstract: One of the inherent problems with setting standards for digital television (TV) is that it involves freezing the choice of technologies at a specific point in time. Some promising technologies may have to be excluded because they are immature or not yet proven, while others are simply too demanding (e.g., in terms of processing power or memory requirements) to be included in mass-market products. A few years later, these “promising” technologies may have become commonplace, but consumers would not be happy throwing away millions of “perfectly good” TV sets if the broadcasters decided to replace the “old” standard for digital TV with a “new and better” standard. One solution to this dilemma is to ensure that any new standard is backward-compatible with the previous standard, as typified by the addition of color to monochrome TV. However, the requirement of backward-compatibility is a very severe constraint on the performance of new standards
Publication Date: 2013-09-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18316
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18316
Author(s): Philip Laven
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Philip Laven is chairman of the DVB Project, acting on behalf of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) where he was director of the Technical Department from May 1997 until August 2007. Before joining the EBU, he worked for the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) where most of his work was associated with research and development (R&D), including being chief engineer R&D with responsibility for all of the BBC's R&D activities. As controller of engineering policy from 1993 to 1997, he played a leading role in the development of the BBC's policy on many technical developments, such as the introduction of digital audio broadcasting and digital television. Between 1994 and 2009, he was chairman of the ETSI/EBU/CENELEC Joint Technical Committee (which is responsible for setting European standards for broadcasting systems). In April 2013, he was appointed Chairman of the FOBTV initiative.
Copyright: © 2013 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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