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MPEG-3

MPEG-3 was the designation for an abandoned plan to create a group of audio and video coding standards agreed upon by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) designed to handle HDTV signals at 1080p in the range of 20 to 40 megabits per second. MPEG-3 was launched as an effort to address the need of an HDTV standard while work on MPEG-2 was underway, but it was soon discovered that MPEG-2, at high data rates, would accommodate HDTV. Thus, in 1992 HDTV was included as a separate profile in the MPEG-2 standard and MPEG-3 was rolled into MPEG-2.

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MPEG-3 was the designation for an abandoned plan to create a group of audio and video coding standards agreed upon by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) designed to handle HDTV signals at 1080p1 in the range of 20 to 40 megabits per second.2 MPEG-3 was launched as an effort to address the need of an HDTV standard while work on MPEG-2 was underway, but it was soon discovered that MPEG-2, at high data rates, would accommodate HDTV.3 Thus, in 19924 HDTV was included as a separate profile in the MPEG-2 standard and MPEG-3 was rolled into MPEG-2.5

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  1. Marshall, D'ave (2001-04-10). "MPEG-2, MPEG-3, and MPEG-4". Cardiff University. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  2. "MPEG". Filmbug. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  3. Poynton, Charles (January 2003). Digital Video and HDTV: Algorithms and Interfaces. San Francisco, California: Morgan Kaufmann. pp. 126. ISBN 1-55860-792-7.
  4. Fairhurst, Gorry. "Digital Television: The MPEG-2 Standard" (PDF). University of Aberdeen. p. 2. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  5. "MPEG-7 Frequently Asked Questions". MPEG. March 2000. Archived from the original on 2013-07-27. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
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