The Worldwide ITU Dimension to DTV Standards

This article describes the progress made in the ITU-R during the 1980s and 90s to prepare international standards for digital terrestrial television systems. The last ITU-R meeting on this project was held in November 1996—almost 10 years ago—at which a set of Recommendations for digital broadcasting systems was agreed, laying the foundations for the global roll-out of DTV and HDTV terrestrial broadcast services.

Print ISSN

1545-0279

Electronic ISSN

2160-2492

Published

2006-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J15135