Leading participant and early proponent of the use of MPEG flexible packets for the U.S. HDTV standard. Charter member of earlier Advanced Digital HDTV Consortium and of the recent Grand Alliance HDTV development team. Announced capability to produce set-top receivers with full microprocessor capability. Note 1 . As an aside, Thomson announced the shipment of the one-millionth DSS home unit in less than ten months from a standing start.
Consumers are prepared to accept the new digital television systems and hardware.