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Mr. Browne, who serves as chair of the AFCCE Committee on Advanced Television Systems, gave the Detroit section an update on where things stand with DTV. He began with a brief review of the proceeding since it was started in 1981, and continued through the history of advanced televison to describe the agreement recently reached between the broadcast, computer and movie industries. John has been largely involved in the transmission and frequency allocation aspects of DTV, and reviewed the allotment procedure used by the FCC to develop the various verions of the proposed table of allotments. He explained why existing stations have received widely differing facilities assignments and outlined the AFCCE proposal to revisit the planning factors used in the allotment procedure, including the assumption of upgraded receiving equipment at the fringes. Mr. Browne concluded by expressing that allocation problems should be fixed now before assignments are made and facilities are built, reflecting on the failure to implement the findings of TASO in the 1950s because many stations were already on the air in conflict with developing engineering practices. Questions from the audience followed.
Harold Miller of Harold Miller Associates, the Detroit section Test Materials Advisor, preceeded Mr. Browne's talk with a demonstration of SMPTE's Video Cassette for Receiver/Monitor Setup.
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