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Chapter 5

The official ATSC home page:

  • http://www.atsc.org/

  • Latest news on the digital TV front:

  • http://www.ce.org/publications/vision/default.asp

  • Introduction to HDTV by K.J. Kuhn, University of Washington:

  • http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/kuhn/hdtv/95x5.htm
  • An excellent paper on the formation of the HDTV standard and the players in the HDTV enterprise:

  • http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~rraman/papers/HDTV_ECE296_Fall03_RR_DCMJ_U_of_I.pdf
  • The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) page:

  • http://www.fcc.gov/
  • A good guide for selecting video compression codecs, along with an explanation of common codecs such as Intel Indeo Video (including R3.2), Microsoft RLE, Microsoft Video~1, and Cinepak is the Adobe page:

  • http://www.adobe.com/support/techguides/premiere/prmr_codecs/
  • An excellent list of (the many) video formats including analog ones.

  • http://www.geocities.com/xhelmboyx/quicktime/formats/media-info.txt


  • Fundamentals of Multimedia