Historic Milestones

Be it slow-motion technology, teletext or digital television: IRT inventions change the daily lives of media users. The Video Programme System (VPS), for example, ended years of VCR frustrations by making it positively simple to record your favourite TV shows. Or the driver information system ARI, which ensures that you always hear the latest traffic reports on your car radio – regardless of the station. And thanks to IRT’s research on high-definition television (HDTV), you can enjoy ever sharper picture quality in your living room.

Read “Historic Milestones” to learn more about IRT innovations which have enhanced the quality and convenience of radio and television:

2009	HbbTV, a pan‐European initiative aimed at providing an alternative to proprietary technologies and delivering an open platform for broadcasters to deliver value added on‐demand services to the end consumer
2007	IRT celebrates its 50th jubilee
2006	Regional Radiocommunications Conference RRC 06 (Frequency Plan for terrestrial digital Broadcasting)
2005	first uncompressed HDTV-Shootings with 1080 p50
2004	first uncompressed HDTV-Shootings with 720 p50
2003	Calculation of Coverage for DVB-T, MXF Standardisation, IRT's MXF Software Development Kits and MXF Test Center
2000	Emmy Award 2000 for ISO MPEG Layer II, IRT's MHP ReferenceImplementation
1999	KEM-Mikrophone installed at "Deutscher Bundestag", Demonstration of MHP Multimedia Home Platform at IFA
1998	first Multi-channel Sound Transmission with DVB
1997	first Transmission of DVB for Mobile Reception, Demonstration of the "Bookmark" and the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for DVB
1996	Virtual Studio at IRT
1995	first digital HDTV Transmission via Satellite according to the MPEG-2 Standard
1993	PALplus Wide-Screen Signalling
1992	first full-digital HDTV Transmission (140 MBit/s) via Satellite, MUSICAM becomes ISO standard (ISO MPEG Layer II), IRT is recipient of the Lother-Cremer Medal of "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik"
1988	first DAB Transmissions in Germany
1985	Eduard-Rhein Prize for Video Programme System (VPS), first DAB Demonstration at the WARC-ORB in Geneva, Eduard-Rhein Prize for Transmission of DSR
1984	Dummy Head Stereophony for Radio Play, Demonstration of 3-D-Television at IFA
1983	first experimental Transmissions of the Radio Data System (RDS), decisive Contributions to the EBU Test of TV with digital Sound (C/D-MAC, A/B/C-PAL)
1982	Eduard-Rhein Prize for Stereo Sound Television, Digital Satellite Radio (DSR)
1981	Fibre-optic Transmission at the Berlin IFA, Dual-Channel Sound for Television
1975	first experimental Transmissions of Videotext at IFA
1974	ARI Traffic Information System
1970	Blue-Screen in Television Production
1967	electronic Slow-Motion (football action replays)
1957	Beginning of Workings at IRT
1956	Foundation of IRT

Historic Milestones

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