MPEG-3

MPEG-3 is the designation for a group of audio and video encoding standards agreed upon by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) designed to handle HDTV signals at 1080p in the range of 20 to 40 megabits per second. 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. Thus, in 1992, HDTV was included as a separate profile in the MPEG-2 standard and MPEG-3 was rolled into MPEG-2.