HDTV Links
Industry & Standards Organizations
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — U.S. regulator that oversaw the DTV transition mandate
- Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) — developed the U.S. digital television standard
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU) — U.N. agency coordinating global broadcast standards
- European Broadcasting Union (EBU) — European counterpart; championed DVB and COFDM transmission
- Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) — European digital TV standard consortium
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) — sets production and format standards
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
- National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
- National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA)
- Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE)
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- Consumer Technology Association (CTA, formerly CEMA)
- Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association (SBCA)
- Advanced Television Technology Center (ATTC) — conducted the field testing that validated the U.S. ATSC standard
Historical
Organizations and individuals central to HDTV's early development.
- NHK Laboratories — Japan's public broadcaster invented HDTV in the 1960s; NHK research drove the global push for a high-definition standard
- SRI International (formerly Sarnoff Research Center) — conducted foundational HDTV research for the U.S. Grand Alliance
- Prof. William F. Schreiber — MIT; wrote the definitive technical critique of interlaced scanning and 8-VSB transmission during the ATSC standards debate
Articles & Reference
- What exactly is ATSC? (HDTV Primer)
- How HDTV Works (HowStuffWorks)
- High-Definition Television (Wikipedia)