The tremendous growth of the cable industry has place increased demands on the technical quality o·f the picture signals carried by a cable system. Simultaneously, a technical "renaissance" has been occurring in both the Broadcasting technology and in home receiver performance,
Much has been said about inadequacies of .the NTSC Color Television Standards, but the ·significant fact is that most problems for which the system is bl~ed are ·equipment or hardware limitations not .remotely I;"elr..ted to the transmission standards.
Let us review, in a broad sense, some of the progress that has been made recently.