advanced compatible television

In the first phase, an interim system, called Advanced Compatible Television, or ACTV, would be made available by 1993.

Researchers at the nonprofit Sarnoff center are working on an intermediate step toward HDTV, called advanced compatible television, that would have wider pictures but little increase in resolution.

The other is ACTV (Advanced Compatible Television), a brainchild of the David Sarnoff Research Center at Princeton.

Seeking again to establish an industry television standard, the lab has proposed its HDTV broadcast system, which it calls ACTV for advanced compatible television, to the F.C.C. for approval.

A Two-Step Approach Sarnoff's high-definition system, called Advanced Compatible Television or ACTV, is a two-step approach that will allow viewers to decide whether they like high-definition television.

Joseph Donahue, a Thomson vice president, said the tube, which is 33 percent wider than conventional models, was being designed for advanced compatible television, a standard advocated by NBC that would allow existing sets to receive high-definition television signals.

Among the most promising American systems is the Advanced Compatible Television, or ACTV, plan being developed by the David Sarnoff Research Center with financing from NBC and General Electric/RCA Consumer Electronics.

Known as ACTV (Advanced Compatible Television), the proposed system has been developed during the last 10 years at the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, N.J., under the joint sponsorship of RCA and NBC.

The outlook brightened in 1987 when NBC and RCA jointly proposed a system known as ACTV (Advanced Compatible Television) that would permit a gradual changeover to a better picture without making obsolete the 140 million television sets now in use in this country.