* MUSE stands for Multiple Sub-Nyquist Sampling Encoding and is an HDTV bandwidth compression scheme developed by NHK. * It uses fundamental concepts for performance exchange in the spatio – temporal (transitory transformation) domain along with motion compensation to reduce the transmission bandwidth down to near about 10 MHz. * The processed HDTV signal can be then transmitted using a single BDS channel. Temporal Interpolation In MUSE the luminance and colour information are sent by time multiplexed components (TMC) The colour information is sent sequentially with a time compression of four. * For a moving picture area the final picture is reconstructed by spatial interpolation using samples from a single field. Hence moving portions of the picture are reproduced with one- quarter the spatial resolution of the stationary areas. The spatial frequency response for both stationary and moving areas of the picture is shown in figure below. * In decoder, the read – out addresses of picture elements (pixels) from previous fields are shifted according to the information provided by the motion vector so that the data can be processed in still – picture mode. * These two modes of interpolation, the inter – frame processing for stationary pictures and infra field averaging for moving portions of the picture are switched by detecting the moving areas at the decoder. * Audio transmission is done by 4 – phase DPSK which is multiplexed with the processed video signal in the vertical blanking interval after frequency modulation of the transmission carrier by the video signal.