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April 2008 | When was the Boeing contract signed? |
QinetiQ | Who is downgrading the Chinook helicopters? |
£90m | How much was the Boeing contract worth? |
more advanced equipment | What was removed from the Chinook helicopters? |
October 2009 | When was the TA budget withdrawn? |
£20m | How much money was allocated to the volunteer Territorial Army? |
April 2010 | When was the training for the TA supposed to resume? |
a small percentage | How much of the UK's troops are provided by the TA? |
weekly evenings and monthly weekends | How often do the TA troops regularly train? |
£6.5bn | By how much did the MoD go over its equipment budget? |
2013 | When was the overbudget amount discovered? |
poor management and financial control | What are some of the criticisms that have been directed at the MoD? |
up to 39 years | What is a long-range estimate on fulfillment of some of the equipment orders made by the MoD? |
up to 10 and even as much as 15 years | Past projects ordered by the MoD have taken what type of time frame to fulfill? |
1936 | The term "high definition" originally described televisions systems from what year? |
mechanical systems with as few as 30 lines of resolution | Earlier television systems were based on what? |
20th | During which entire century were companies and nations trying to achieve true HDTV? |
21st | In what century were 4k, 5k, and 8k systems introduced? |
8K | What is the most current HDTV system development? |
The British high-definition TV service | Who started trials in August 1936? |
February 1937 | When was the Baird system discontinued? |
France | Which country developed the 441-line system? |
the technical limitations of the time | What prevented France's 819-line system from achieving the definition it was capable of? |
405-line system | Which system used interlaced scanning to correct the flicker problem of the 240-line? |
1953, | What year did color broadcasts start in the US? |
525 | How many lines of resolution did the US NTSC color system have in 1953? |
1960s | When did Europe begin color broadcasts? |
Europe | The PAL and SECAM were color systems where? |
625 | How many lines of resolution were the European monochrome broadcasts? |
Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai | What is the Japan Broadcasting Corporation called? |
Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai | What does NHK stand for in Japan? |
1972 | What year was NHK Color created? |
5:3 | What was the aspect ratio of the NHK Color? |
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) | What organization became the authority on testing and studying international HDTV technology? |
four | How many major HDTV systems were tested by SMPTE in the late 70's? |
SMPTE | Who tested the four major HDTV systems in the late 1970's? |
an SMPTE study group | Who released A Study of High Definition Television Systems? |
1979 | In what year was A Study of High Definition Television Systems released? |
A Study of High Definition Television Systems | What was released by an SMPTE study group in 1979? |
digital video broadcasting | What does DVB stand for? |
early 2000s | When was widescreen HDTV transmission modes formally adopted? |
SECAM systems | In addition to the 625-line PAL system, what European system is considered a standard definition television system? |
PAL-M | In addition to the NTSC system, what 525-line system is considered a standard definition television system? |
standard definition television systems | 525 and 625-line systems are now considered what? |
1949 | In what year did France start transmissions using and 819 line system? |
France | What country started transmissions using and 819 line system in 1949? |
an 819 lines system | What did France start transmissions with in 1949? |
monochrome only | Was France's 819 line system in color? |
1983 | When was France's 819 line system discontinued? |
a research project | In the end what was the Soviet Union's Transformator system used for? |
1958 | When did the Soviet Union develop Transformator? |
the Soviet Union | Who developed Transformator in 1958? |
1,125 | How many lines of resolution could an image using the Transformator system have? |
providing teleconferencing for military command | What was the goal of the Transformator system? |
1979 | In what year did NHK first develop consumer HD television with a 5:3 aspect ratio? |
the Japanese state broadcaster NHK | Who first developed consumer HD television with a 5:3 aspect ratio? |
1989 | When did satellite test broadcasts of Hi-Vision start? |
November 25, 1994 | When did regular broadcasting of BS-9ch start? |
1991 | When did regular testing of Hi-Vision start? |
1981 | When was the MUSE system demonstrated in the US first? |
5:3 | What aspect ratio did the MUSE system use when demonstrated in 1981? |
President Ronald Reagan | Which president declared it "a matter of national interest" to introduce HDTV to the US? |
MUSE | Which system was demonstrated in the US for the first time in 1981? |
MUSE | Which system was demonstrated in Washington to President Ronald Reagan? |
their higher bandwidth requirements | Why did the FCC reject systems such as MUSE? |
television channels | What was increasing and consuming a lot of bandwidth? |
the FCC | Who rejected systems such as MUSE as the new standard for the US? |
had to be more efficient, needing less bandwidth | What was one of the requirements for a new standard system in the US? |
NTSC | What was the existing system at the time? |
technical and economic | What constraints kept HDTV from being widely adopted in the 90's? |
use bandwidths greater than normal television | What was HDTV not permitted to do in the 90's? |
over four times | How much more bandwith was required from early HDTV commercial experiments than an SD broadcast? |
about twice | Efforts were made to reduce analog HDTV to how much of the bandwith of SDTV? |
by satellite | Despite the reduced bandwith, HDTV format still had to be distributed how? |
Early HDTV commercial experiments | What kind of experiments required over four times the bandwith of a SDTV broadcast? |
seven | How many broadcasters did Japan have sharing a single channel? |
Japan | Which country had successful public analog HDTV broadcasting? |
recording and reproducing an HDTV signal | What was particularly challenging in the early years of HDTV? |
the only country with successful public broadcasting of analog HDTV | What accomplishment in early HDTV did Japan have? |
International Telecommunication Union's radio telecommunications sector | What does ITU-R stand for? |
Digital Video Broadcasting | What does DVB stand for? |
an alliance of broadcasters, consumer electronics manufacturers and regulatory bodies | What is the DVB? |
develops and agrees upon specifications | What is the DVB's role? |
ETSI | Who standardizes HDTV specifications? |
ATSC | What did the Grand Alliance propose as the new standard for SDTV and HDTV? |
MPEG-2 | Which standard were ATSC and DVB based on? |
DVB | Who created the standard for DVB-2, DVB-C, and DVB-T? |
the Grand Alliance | Who proposed ATSC as the new standard for SDTV and HDTV? |
1983 | When did ITU-R start trying to work towards setting a single international HDTV standard? |
setting a single international HDTV standard | What did ITU-R start trying to do in 1983? |
a suitable frame/field refresh rate | What was one of the issues with setting a single HDTV standard? |
motion vectors | What was used as a conversion between the two main frame/field rates? |
two | How many frame/field rates were primarily being used in 1983? |
16:9 | What aspect ratio was agreed upon due to the influence of widescreen cinema? |
the IWP11/6 working party | Who agreed upon the 16:9 aspect ratio? |
widescreen cinema | What was a leading factor in the 16:9 aspect ratio being chosen? |
MBAFF | Which encoding contains both progressive and interlaced content? |
5:3 | Which aspect ratio was the early favorite? |
1440×1152 HDMAC | What scan format is also included in MBAFF? |
a mooted 750-line | What was viewed by some as enhanced television format and not true HDTV format? |
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