Digital Television: A Glossary and Bibliography
Gwyneth Davies Heynes · SMPTE Journal · 1977
Digital processing of television signals has been investigated experimentally for several years. Much of the theoretical foundation for the current activity among broadcasters and manufacturers of broadcast equipment was laid by Bell Telephone Laboratories in their experimental work with the video-telephone (some of which is acknowledged in the section of the bibliography devoted to “Picture Coding”) and was further developed by the BBC.