The US government is going cold on the idea of pumping a lot of money into the development of high definition television, but AT&T has been reaffirming its commitment to develop the image processing technologies needed and is urging Federal government leadership to help the cause along. Testifying before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Telecommunications & Finance, AT&T Bell Laboratories executive vice-president Solomon Buchsbaum linked HDTV development to the coming wave of image processing that will make possible such TV-based services as video telephones and video conferencing. I fully expect HDTV sets to be interconnected to the national telecommunications network the way telephones, data terminals and computers are interconnected today, he said. Buchsbaum said image processing will be the next stage of the telecommunications revolution, and that it will be a force as great as voice and data processing.
