Question: When was the training for the TA supposed to resume?
Answer: April 2010

Question: How much of the UK's troops are provided by the TA?
Answer: a small percentage

Question: How often do the TA troops regularly train?
Answer: weekly evenings and monthly weekends

Question: By how much did the MoD go over its equipment budget?
Answer: £6.5bn

Question: When was the overbudget amount discovered?
Answer: 2013

Question: What are some of the criticisms that have been directed at the MoD?
Answer: poor management and financial control

Question: What is a long-range estimate on fulfillment of some of the equipment orders made by the MoD?
Answer: up to 39 years

Question: Past projects ordered by the MoD have taken what type of time frame to fulfill?
Answer: up to 10 and even as much as 15 years

Question: The term "high definition" originally described televisions systems from what year?
Answer: 1936

Question: Earlier television systems were based on what?
Answer: mechanical systems with as few as 30 lines of resolution

Question: During which entire century were companies and nations trying to achieve true HDTV?
Answer: 20th

Question: In what century were 4k, 5k, and 8k systems introduced?
Answer: 21st

Question: What is the most current HDTV system development?
Answer: 8K

Question: Who started trials in August 1936?
Answer: The British high-definition TV service

Question: When was the Baird system discontinued?
Answer: February 1937

Question: Which country developed the 441-line system?
Answer: France

Question: What prevented France's 819-line system from achieving the definition it was capable of?
Answer: the technical limitations of the time

Question: Which system used interlaced scanning to correct the flicker problem of the 240-line?
Answer: 405-line system

Question: What year did color broadcasts start in the US?
Answer: 1953,

Question: How many lines of resolution did the US NTSC color system have in 1953?
Answer: 525

Question: When did Europe begin color broadcasts?
Answer: 1960s

Question: The PAL and SECAM were color systems where?
Answer: Europe

Question: How many lines of resolution were the European monochrome broadcasts?
Answer: 625

Question: What is the Japan Broadcasting Corporation called?
Answer: Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai

Question: What does NHK stand for in Japan?
Answer: Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai

Question: What year was NHK Color created?
Answer: 1972

Question: What was the aspect ratio of the NHK Color?
Answer: 5:3

Question: What organization became the authority on testing and studying international HDTV technology? 
Answer: The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)

Question: How many major HDTV systems were tested by SMPTE in the late 70's?
Answer: four

Question: Who tested the four major HDTV systems in the late 1970's?
Answer: SMPTE

Question: Who released A Study of High Definition Television Systems?
Answer: an SMPTE study group

Question: In what year was A Study of High Definition Television Systems released?
Answer: 1979

Question: What was released by an SMPTE study group in 1979?
Answer: A Study of High Definition Television Systems

Question: What does DVB stand for?
Answer: digital video broadcasting

Question: When was widescreen HDTV transmission modes formally adopted?
Answer: early 2000s

Question: In addition to the 625-line PAL system, what European system is considered a standard definition television system?
Answer: SECAM systems

Question: In addition to the NTSC system, what 525-line system is considered a standard definition television system?
Answer: PAL-M

Question: 525 and 625-line systems are now considered what?
Answer: standard definition television systems

Question: In what year did France start transmissions using and 819 line system?
Answer: 1949

Question: What country started transmissions using and 819 line system in 1949?
Answer: France

Question: What did France start transmissions with in 1949?
Answer: an 819 lines system

Question: Was France's 819 line system in color?
Answer: monochrome only

Question: When was France's 819 line system discontinued?
Answer: 1983

Question: In the end what was the Soviet Union's Transformator system used for?
Answer: a research project

Question: When did the Soviet Union develop Transformator?
Answer: 1958

Question: Who developed Transformator in 1958?
Answer: the Soviet Union

Question: How many lines of resolution could an image using the Transformator system have?
Answer: 1,125

Question: What was the goal of the Transformator system?
Answer: providing teleconferencing for military command

Question: In what year did NHK first develop consumer HD television with a 5:3 aspect ratio?
Answer: 1979

Question: Who first developed consumer HD television with a 5:3 aspect ratio?
Answer: the Japanese state broadcaster NHK

Question: When did satellite test broadcasts of Hi-Vision start?
Answer: 1989

Question: When did regular broadcasting of BS-9ch start?
Answer: November 25, 1994

Question: When did regular testing of Hi-Vision start?
Answer: 1991

Question: When was the MUSE system demonstrated in the US first?
Answer: 1981

Question: What aspect ratio did the MUSE system use when demonstrated in 1981?
Answer: 5:3

Question: Which president declared it "a matter of national interest" to introduce HDTV to the US?
Answer: President Ronald Reagan

Question: Which system was demonstrated in the US for the first time in 1981?
Answer: MUSE

Question: Which system was demonstrated in Washington to President Ronald Reagan?
Answer: MUSE

Question: Why did the FCC reject systems such as MUSE?
Answer: their higher bandwidth requirements

Question: What was increasing and consuming a lot of bandwidth?
Answer: television channels

Question: Who rejected systems such as MUSE as the new standard for the US?
Answer: the FCC

Question: What was one of the requirements for a new standard system in the US?
Answer: had to be more efficient, needing less bandwidth

Question: What was the existing system at the time?
Answer: NTSC

Question: What constraints kept HDTV from being widely adopted in the 90's?
Answer: technical and economic

Question: What was HDTV not permitted to do in the 90's?
Answer: use bandwidths greater than normal television

Question: How much more bandwith was required from early HDTV commercial experiments than an SD broadcast?
Answer: over four times

Question: Efforts were made to reduce analog HDTV to how much of the bandwith of SDTV?
Answer: about twice

Question: Despite the reduced bandwith, HDTV format still had to be distributed how?
Answer: by satellite

Question: What kind of experiments required over four times the bandwith of a SDTV broadcast?
Answer: Early HDTV commercial experiments

Question: How many broadcasters did Japan have sharing a single channel?
Answer: seven

Question: Which country had successful public analog HDTV broadcasting?
Answer: Japan

Question: What was particularly challenging in the early years of HDTV?
Answer: recording and reproducing an HDTV signal

Question: What accomplishment in early HDTV did Japan have?
Answer: the only country with successful public broadcasting of analog HDTV

Question: What does ITU-R stand for?
Answer: International Telecommunication Union's radio telecommunications sector

Question: What does DVB stand for?
Answer: Digital Video Broadcasting

Question: What is the DVB?
Answer: an alliance of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers and regulatory bodies

Question: What is the DVB's role?
Answer: develops and agrees upon specifications

Question: Who standardizes HDTV specifications?
Answer: ETSI

Question: What did the Grand Alliance propose as the new standard for SDTV and HDTV?
Answer: ATSC

Question: Which standard were ATSC and DVB based on?
Answer: MPEG-2

Question: Who created the standard for DVB-2, DVB-C, and DVB-T?
Answer: DVB

Question: Who proposed ATSC as the new standard for SDTV and HDTV?
Answer: the Grand Alliance