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Article: Cablevision: compression passes big test. (Cablevision Systems Corp. to use digital-compression technology in cable television developed by General Instrument Corp.)
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- August 19, 1991
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Cablevision: Compression Passes Big Test
Digital-compression technology looks more than ever like a force to be reckoned with following a landmark test at a Cablevision Systems Corp. facility in Hicksville, N.Y., last week.
"It looks dynamite, better than at the (cable) shows," Wilt Hildenbrand, engineering vice president at Cablevision, said after getting his first look at General Instrument Corp.'s DigiSat and DigiCable technology over an operating cable facility.
"If all it can do from here is get better, then we're headed in the right direction," Hildenbrand said.
The test involved a complex feed of 4:1 compressed video uplinked from ...