In the United States, digital television broadcasting, as codified in the ATSC standards, employed the latest, state-of-the-art video coding technology available at the time the standards were ...

At long last, HDTV is arriving in Europe, with a single HDTV DBS service already operating, and launches in the U.K., Germany, and France announced for the 2005-06 period. As might be expected, there ...

The time is 1:13 a.m. and the radio barks out ten-codes about a robbery: One man is down and the perpetrators are fleeing the scene by car. Law enforcement launches an aerial search, which moves from ...

When we asked our faithful readers what technological advances had made the biggest difference to their lives, Prospero424 stepped up to the plate to deliver a humdinger: video compression. To ...