I guess I go back quite a bit further than you do. It is not surprising
that the digital systems developed twenty years later do better;
however, the development of MUSE began in the early to mid 1970s, with
the initiative for a new television system starting in the mid 1960s if
I remember correctly. Fujio wrote the seminal paper on the system
around 1980 or so.
I think you missed my point entirely - nobody at the time MUSE was
developed or the ATV trials in the US started in the early 1980s
thought it was possible to put a quality television signal in digital
form into a 6 MHz channel. I remember digital television systems that
generated as much as 240 MB/s at the time for their signals - those
were not going into a 6MHz channel at all.
Eric
On Feb 22, 2004, at 10:10 AM, Ken Chang wrote:
> the NHK system was tested with 4 digital systems for 2 years against
> a lengthy requirement list by 3 laboratories and was dropped in 1993
> for its poor performance.
>
> regarding the bandwidth, the original digital system proposed by
> General Instrument (the broadband communications sector of Motorola
> since 2000) demanded the same 6 MHz channel as NTSC.
>
Received on Sun Feb 22 22:22:44 2004