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3 unusual facts about Institut für Rundfunktechnik


ANT Software Limited

ANT is a founder and Steering Group member, represented by CTO David Fell, of the HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) consortium along with EBU, France Televisions, Institut für Rundfunktechnik, OpenTV, Philips, Samsung, SES ASTRA, Sony and TF1.

Dolby noise-reduction system

A similar system named High Com FM was tested in Germany between July 1979 and December 1981 by IRT.

Institut für Rundfunktechnik

Institut für Rundfunktechnik is a founding member of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) consortium of broadcasting and Internet industry companies (also including SES, OpenTV, Espial and ANT Software) that is promoting and establishing an open European standard (called HbbTV) for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.


MPEG-1

--at ???--> Optimum Coding in the Frequency domain (OCF) the doctoral thesis by Karlheinz Brandenburg at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM) by J. D. Johnston at AT&T Bell Labs, and Transform coding of audio signals by Y. Mahieux and J. Petit at Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT/CNET).


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