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"Your definintion of good engineering, solid economics, and common sense will inevitably differ from mine. Some have suggested that many proposed HDTV production and broadcast standards are really 'the Emperor's new clothes.' Some talk of market and political forces being the only way to choose standards for the short and long term. Others simply ask, 'What's the rush? Let's go slow here, fix NTSC, PAL, and SECAM, and choose a truly high-definition system for the next millenium.'" Peter Hammar, Program Chairman, from the preface. This is a compilation of selected papers on television technology presented during the 23rd annual SMPTE television conference in San Francisco, California, February 3-4, 1989. With pre-emptive vision, they addressed many of the issues in the television industry that we are currently seeing in technology news.