MPEG-3

Not to be confused with MP3.

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[1] 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 1992[4] 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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  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.