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Inside MPEG-1

MPEG-1 is formally known as ISO/IEC 11172. ISO/IEC refers to the fact that the standard is recognised by both ISO and IEC because JTC 1, the Technical Committee under which...
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The achievements of MPEG-1

Besides being an excellent set of pieces of technology, MPEG-1 is also a remarkable collection of “first ever” achievements.  It was the first integrated audio-visual standard. This was a great...
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The Highs And Lows Of Television

For some 80 years, one-to-many communication seemed like a business blessed by the blindfolded goddess. Newspapers used to be of the first and, until recently, a very successful such businesses....
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The Digital Television Maze

At the very first meeting in Ottawa, MPEG had set for itself an initial work plan based on three targets: substandard definition television as provided by SIF (1/4 of SDTV)...
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MPEG-2 Development – Video

The first open MPEG-2 “session” took place in Porto in July 1990. Months before, while in search for a meeting host for this ever-growing MPEG group, I had asked Prof....
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MPEG-2 Development – Audio

As with MPEG-1, the Audio work in MPEG-2 took a different turn from its original direction. MPEG-1 Audio already provided an excellent way to compress stereo audio, exactly what many...
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MPEG-2 Development – Systems

The development of the MPEG-2 Audio and Video standards required the best experts in digital audio and video processing, but the development of the Systems part required seasoned engineers, a...
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Inside MPEG-2

Unlike MPEG-1, where a reference model strictly need only consider the decoder, the full extent of the MPEG-2 standard requires consideration of the complete chain from source to destination for...
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The Impact of MPEG-2

The radio spectrum is sliced for use by a multitude of services and the VHF/UHF band assigned to terrestrial television broadcasting is very narrow. Spectrum scarcity used to make television...
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Beyond MPEG-2 Audio And Video

In 1992 and 1993 I was looking with interest at the developments in Europebearing the name “European Project on Digital Broadcasting”. Seeing what was brewing in Europe, the VADIS Strategic...
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