If you're an insomniac, I recommend David Brinkley's book "Defining Vision : How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television" It

If you're an insomniac, I recommend David Brinkley's book "Defining Vision : How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television" It's an account of the incredibly messy process that got us the ATSC standard in the USA. A little dry but a little interesting. https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Vision-Broadcasters-Government-Revolution/dp/0156005972 https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Vision-Broadcasters-Governme... The upside is that the group took so long to define a standard that digital compression and broadcasting technologies matured enough so that HDTV in the US could be fully digital and not analog like the Japanese had pioneered and proposed as a world standard.