HDTV Delivery to the Consumer Work of the Advanced Television Systems Committee

Technical development of advanced television systems has reached a level where major changes in consumer products can be expected on the market in the foreseeable future. Super VHS, already being sold, offers pictures from prerecorded tapes which are significantly better than can be delivered via conventional broadcast. The Japan Broadcasting Corporation has announced it will begin direct satellite broadcasting of high definition television (HDTV) in Japan in 1990, and consumer HDTV equipment will be sold in Japan, and likely elsewhere, at that time.