A Call For Standards The Demise Of Specsmanship
Dennis E. Caudle · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1990
Over the last ten years, standardization in the video industry has taken both the high road and the low road. Manufacturers of broadcast and consumer video products have reaped the benefits of significant standardization, including ease of marketing and a logical progression of product improvement, while customers enjoy product compatibility, ease of comparison and a degree of standardization in quality. Unfortunately, industrial video manufacturers have done a very poor job of standardizing products and uniformly specifying product performance.