Winter 2008 STRL Bulletin

NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories ISSN 1345-4099 STRL Launches Joint Research with European Broadcasting Technology no. 33 Research Institutions CONTENTS

HK concluded a collaboration agreement with the European Broadcasting Union Feature N(EBU), BBC (U.K.), RAI (Italy), and IRT STRL Launches Joint Research with (Germany) at a meeting held at the Science & European Broadcasting Technology Technical Research Laboratories in February of last Research Institutions ...... 1 year. The Directors-General of these organizations Internationalization of the Japanese discussed the specific collaborative activities during a Digital Terrestrial Television meeting at BBC headquarters in London, the United Broadcasting System, ISDB-T ....2 Kingdom, on January 24. The meeting led to the Development of viewer-friendly television conclusion of a joint research contract and an Signing by STRL Director-General Kenkichi services at NHK STRL ...... 11 agreement on holding joint exhibitions. Tanioka and Mr. Colin Whitbread of the BBC About us NHK signed a joint research contract with the BBC Overview of NHK STRL...... 18 on virtual studio technology, and the schedule decided during the meeting calls for other Challenge / Topics/ R&D / Invention / collaborative research projects--one with the BBC on Treatise / Super Hi-Vision (SHV) video coding and another with RAI on an SHV transmission technology based NHK Technology on a 21-GHz-band broadcasting satellite. Constructive discussions were also held on other issues, such as promoting an exchange of supporting technologies to help span the digital divide, which is a common agenda item at the research institutions of public broadcasters. It was also confirmed that mutual dispatches of STRL Director-General Kenkichi Tanioka and Mr. Colin Whitbread of the BBC after researchers and joint exhibitions of research results the signing would take place in the future. One example of such activities will be a research presentation by the BBC at this year's open house of NHK STRL. NHK will continue its global efforts to promote technology research and standardization related to new and future broadcasting services.

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