Advanced Telecommunications and Signal Processing Program

摘要

The present television system was designed nearly 50 years ago. Since then, there have been significant developments in technology, which are highly relevant to the television industry. For example, advances in the very large scale integration (VLSI) technology and signal processing theories make it feasible to incorporate frame-store memory and sophisticated signal processing capabilities in a television receiver at a reasonable cost. To exploit this new technology in developing future television systems, Japan and Europe established large laboratories, funded by government- or industry-wide consortia. The lack of this type of organization in the United States was considered detrimental to the broadcasting and equipment manufacturing industries, so in 1983 a consortium of American companies established the Advanced Television Research Program (ATRP) at MIT.