Question: When did ITU-R start trying to work towards setting a single international HDTV standard?
Answer: 1983

Question: What did ITU-R start trying to do in 1983?
Answer: setting a single international HDTV standard

Question: What was one of the issues with setting a single HDTV standard?
Answer: a suitable frame/field refresh rate

Question: What was used as a conversion between the two main frame/field rates?
Answer: motion vectors

Question: How many frame/field rates were primarily being used in 1983?
Answer: two

Question: What aspect ratio was agreed upon due to the influence of widescreen cinema?
Answer: 16:9

Question: Who agreed upon the 16:9 aspect ratio?
Answer: the IWP11/6 working party

Question: What was a leading factor in the 16:9 aspect ratio being chosen?
Answer: widescreen cinema

Question: Which encoding contains both progressive and interlaced content?
Answer: MBAFF

Question: Which aspect ratio was the early favorite?
Answer: 5:3

Question: What scan format is also included in MBAFF?
Answer: 1440×1152 HDMAC

Question: What was viewed by some as enhanced television format and not true HDTV format?
Answer: a mooted 750-line

Question: A mooted 750-line was seen by some at the ITU as what?
Answer: an enhanced television format

Question: What were 1920x1080i and 1280x720p defined by?
Answer: US SMPTE standards

Question: When was HDTV introduced in the US?
Answer: late 1980s

Question: Who made HDTV official in 1993?
Answer: the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance

Question: AT&T, Philips, Zenith, and MIT, among others, made up what group in the 90's?
Answer: the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance

Question: When did the first public HDTV broadcast happen in the US?
Answer: July 23, 1996

Question: What does ATSC stand for?
Answer: Advanced Television Systems Committee

Question: When did the first HDTV transmissions happen in Europe?
Answer: 1990

Question: What event was the first HDTV broadcast in Europe?
Answer: FIFA World Cup

Question: When did Europe abandon standard transmission?
Answer: mid-1990s

Question: Where was the FIFA World Cup able to be watched in HDTV?
Answer: 8 cinemas in Italy and 2 in Spain

Question: When did regular broadcasts start in Europe?
Answer: January 1, 2004

Question: What event was first broadcasted on January 1, 2004?
Answer: Vienna New Year's Concert

Question: The New Year's Day broadcast officially launched which channel?
Answer: HD1

Question: When did test transmissions of HDTV begin in Europe?
Answer: September 2003

Question: Which European company launched HD1?
Answer: Euro1080

Question: Euro1080 was a division of what former company?
Answer: Alfacam

Question: What "chicken or the egg" stalemate prompted Euro1080 to broadcast HDTV channels?
Answer: "no HD broadcasts mean no HD TVs bought means no HD broadcasts ..."

Question: What was Euro1080 hoping to kick-start by broadcasting HDTV channels?
Answer: HDTV interest in Europe

Question: How much did viewers have to pay for the HD1 channel?
Answer: free-to-air

Question: What was on HD1 for 4 or 5 hours per day?
Answer: a multi-lingual soundtrack on a rolling schedule

Question: What format did the first European HDTV broadcast use?
Answer: 1080i format

Question: What compression did the first European HDTV broadcast use?
Answer: MPEG-2

Question: What signal did the first European HDTV broadcast use?
Answer: DVB-S

Question: What compression did Euro1080 later change to?
Answer: MPEG-4/AVC

Question: What signal did Euro1080 later change to?
Answer: DVB-S2

Question: According to the 2010 Satellite Monitor market survey, how many HD capable TV's were sold in Europe?
Answer: 185 million

Question: According to the 2010 Satellite Monitor market survey, how many European households were watching HD broadcasts? 
Answer: 20 million

Question: How many pounds were spent in Europe on HD capable TVs in 2010?
Answer: £60 million

Question: What percentage of European digital satellite TV homes were watching HD broadcasts in 2010?
Answer: 27%

Question: The number of European HD channels and viewers has done what since the first HDTV broadcasts?
Answer: risen steadily

Question: Which European country first deployed HD content using the new DVB-T2 standard?
Answer: the United Kingdom

Question: When did the UK deploy HD content using the new DVB-T2 transmission standard?
Answer: December 2009

Question: What transmission standard did the UK start using in December 2009?
Answer: DVB-T2

Question: What does DTG stand for?
Answer: Digital TV Group

Question: How many HD channels did the Freeview HD service contain as of December 2013?
Answer: 10

Question: When was the digital switchover process completed in the UK?
Answer: October 2012

Question: Which service contains 10 HD channels and finished its roll out in October 2012?
Answer: Freeview HD

Question: How was the Freeview HD service rolled out in the UK?
Answer: region by region

Question: What are the three HDTV parameters?
Answer: [frame size][scanning system][frame or field rate]

Question: Which two parameters can be dropped if its value is implied from context?
Answer: frame size or frame rate

Question: When can the frame size or frame rate parameter specification be dropped?
Answer: if its value is implied from context

Question: When a parameter is dropped, the remaining numeric parameter is specified first, followed by what?
Answer: the scanning system

Question: What size is each 1920x1080p25 frame?
Answer: 1,920 pixels wide and 1,080 pixels high

Question: The 1920x1080p25 notion identifies progressive scanning format with how many frames per second?
Answer: 25

Question: The 1080i25 or 1080i50 notion identifies interlaced scanning format with how many frames per second?
Answer: 25

Question: The 1080i30 or 1080i60 notion identifies interlaced scanning format with how many frames per second?
Answer: 30

Question: The 720p60 notion identifies progressive scanning format with how many frames per second?
Answer: 60

Question: What three scanning rates do 50 Hz systems support?
Answer: 50i, 25p and 50p

Question: Which system suports 59.94i, 60i, 23.976p, 24p, 29.97p, 30p, 59.94p, and 60p
Answer: 60 Hz

Question: SD television fractional rates were often rounded to what?
Answer: whole numbers

Question: Strict notation is required with HD fractional rates to avoid what?
Answer: ambiguity

Question: What is usually dropped for the commercial naming of an HDTV product?
Answer: the frame rate

Question: What does 24p mean?
Answer: 24 progressive scan frames per second

Question: What does 50i mean?
Answer: 25 interlaced frames per second

Question: When naming a commercial HDTV product, a frame rate can be specified without what?
Answer: a resolution

Question: Is there a single standard for HDTV color support?
Answer: no

Question: Before being converted to RGB, colors are ususally broadcasted using what color space?
Answer: YUV

Question: Colors are typically broadcast using YUV and then converted to what?
Answer: a RGB color space

Question: When transmitted over the internet, colors are typically to what?
Answer: 8-bit RGB channels

Question: What assumption is made with colors being transmitted over the internet?
Answer: it will only be viewed only on a (sRGB) computer screen

Question: At least how many times more linear resolution does HDTV have over SDTV?
Answer: twice

Question: HDTV increases the effective image resolution by not using what?
Answer: letterboxing or anamorphic stretching

Question: What does SDTV stand for?
Answer: standard-definition television

Question: HDTV handles what aspect ratio without using letterboxing or anamorphic stretching?
Answer: 16:9

Question: If more bandwith is required than is available, a very high resolution source my not be able to transmitted without loss of what?
Answer: fidelity

Question: The compression used in all HDTV storage and transmission systems will do what if resolution is too high?
Answer: distort the received picture