The target of the first MPEG work item was of interest to many: the Consumer Electronics industry because it could create a new product riding the success of CD Audio...
The Kurihama meeting in October 1989 was a watershed in many senses. Fifteen video coding proposals were received, including one from the COMIS project. They contained D1 tapes with sequences...
Work in the Audio group was also progressing. Many participants were people interested in audio-only applications, some of them working in the Eureka 147 DAB project. For the majority of...
The development of the Systems part of the standard was done using yet another methodology. The Systems group, a most diversified collection of engineers from multiple industries, after determining the...
One morning of July 1990, Arian Koster of KPN Research called me to make a suggestion: “What if MPEG developed a software implementation of the MPEG-1 standard?”. My immediate reaction...
MPEG-1 is a great standard, but there is a potential problem in its practical adoption. Imagine I am a manufacturer and I choose to be in the business of making...