Digital video and digital TV: a comparison and the future directions

Author

Zong, Li ; Bourbakis, Nicolaos G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

470

Lastpage

481

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the development and current work of recent emerge of all digital high definition television system based on the MPEG-2 compression scheme. It explores the advantages and disadvantages of Japan´s MUSE, European DVB, and U.S. all digital HDTV systems, examines the global HDTV standardization process, and provides a comprehensive and technical survey of HDTV in Asia, Europe and the U.S. It also analyzes the consumer acceptance and market potential of all digital high definition television, and predicts the future merge of broadcast video and computers

Keywords

high definition television; standardisation; video coding; Asia; DVB; Europe; MPEG-2 compression scheme; MUSE; United States; all digital high definition television system; broadcast video; computers; consumer acceptance; digital TV; digital video; global standardization process; market potential; Asia; Digital TV; Digital video broadcasting; Europe; HDTV; High definition video; Standardization; TV broadcasting; Transform coding; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Intelligence and Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bethesda, MD

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0446-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIIS.1999.810318

Filename

810318