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H.120 was the first digital video compression standard. It was developed by the COST 211 European research project and published by the CCITT (now the ITU-T) in 1984, with a revision in 1988 that included contributions proposed by other organizations. The video turned out not to be of adequate quality, there were few implementations, and there are no existing codecs for the format, but it provided important knowledge leading directly to its practical successors, such as H.261. The latest revision was published in March 1993.

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Technology standard.title
H.120
Technology standard.status
Published
Technology standard.year_started
1984
Technology standard.version
(03/93)
Technology standard.organization
ITU-T
Technology standard.committee
VCEG (then: Specialists Group on Coding for Visual Telephony)
Technology standard.related_standards
H.261, H.262, H.263, H.264, H.265
Technology standard.domain
video compression
Technology standard.website
https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.120

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H.120 was the first digital video compression standard. It was developed by the COST 211 European research project and published by the CCITT (now the ITU-T) in 1984, with a revision in 1988 that included contributions proposed by other organizations. The video turned out not to be of adequate quality, there were few implementations, and there are no existing codecs for the format, but it provided important knowledge leading directly to its practical successors, such as H.261. The latest revision was published in March 1993.

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