Complex sentence: Since 4DTV technology was originally developed in 1997 by General Instrument, now the broadband division of Motorola, it predates DVB-based digital television compression and is incompatible with the DVB standard.
Split into simpler sentences: Since 4DTV technology was originally developed in 1997 by General Instrument, now the broadband division of Motorola. The 4DTV format predates DVB-based digital television compression and is incompatible with the DVB standard.