Acknowledgements

Some material in this book has previously appeared in Broadcast Engineering magazine articles and the magazine’s Transition to Digital e-Newsletters. That material is used herein with permission of Prism Media, 2006. I owe that opportunity and my thanks to Brad Dick, editorial director, who took a chance on an unpublished writer.

Thank you to the Advanced Television Systems Committee for permission to use numerous drawings from their suite of standards documents. The most recent versions can be found at www.atsc.org. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers www.smpte.org and the AAF Association www.aafassociation.org have also graciously allowed use of drawings from their documents.

Historical material is derived ...

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