ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some of the non-technical implications of the technology that may be interesting to non-technical readers. The concepts interoperability, scalability, and extensibility have become significant causes for some parties to the debate over what the Advanced Television (ATV) standards should be. They have become industry buzz words when considering the convergence of the technologies of computers and video. Several different stages of processing and compression are applied to the residual data. Once the motion compensation process is complete, the residual to be transmitted for each frame consists of an image matrix of pixels that exactly matches the matrix of pixels of the original image. The transform that is applied to the blocks of frame difference residual in the encoder is the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). Following the DCT, there are many techniques that can be applied to remove redundancy and thereby compress the signal.
