High definition television HDTV

Perceptibly lossless Video and sound compression may replace the current HDTV transmission standard

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Abstract: Providing a practical High Definition Television to the American public was promised in the early 1990’s but has never been delivered. The reason for this is that big corporate money, big academia, and big Government (FCC) tried to legislate and change the laws of nature by selecting outdated methods based on the outdated Shannon information theory. I spite of early warnings by Klaus Holtz new technologies were suppressed (by demanding huge testing fees) or ignored in favor of old and failed solutions. Ironically, private industry has meanwhile delivered the required large monitors with excellent image quality and the TV cameras for HDTV. It is Government in the FCC, which failed to deliver a useful transmission standard. High Definition television is now only possible via cable or satellite requiring huge bandwidth. To deliver on the original promise the old proposals from the early 1990’s should be revisited and reconsidered. The problems are not technical but political. Perhaps the Autosophy solutions may succeed where government and academia has failed.

Applications: Autosophy HDTV may succeed where current HDTV methods have failed in providing a practical method for HDTV transmission, not only via the airwaves but also via the Internet. A demonstration of Autosophy television is already available.

Keywords: Autosophy, HDTV, Internet imaging, Image Compression, Information theory

Available downloadable documents:

Tutorial Video Compression – Webpage htm

Recent publication 2006 – Network-centric systems – Webpage htm

Publication 2002 – Serial Video – Webpage htm

Publication 2001 – Serial TV demo – Webpage htm

Patent 1999 – Serial TV – Webpage htm

Tutorial 1996 – Video compression – Webpage htm

Tutorial 1995 – Video compression – Webpage htm

Publication 1994 Paper 2 – HDTV progress – Webpage htm

Publication 1993 Paper 3 – Parallel HDTV – Webpage htm

Publication 1992 – Parallel HDTV – Webpage htm

Publication 1991 Paper 4 – Parallel HDTV – Webpage htm

Patent 1991 – Parallel TV – Webpage htm

Publication 1990 – Parallel TV – Webpage htm