The following represents some of the references, services, and tools available to help build hardware that is optimized to work with Windows operating systems.
Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards
National Association of Broadcasters, (800) 368-5644
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, (914) 761-1100
E-mail: mktg@smpte.org
http://www.atsc.org
ANSI/SMPTE 12M
SMPTE Recommended Practice (RP) 136 and time-code standards
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
595 West Hartsdale Avenue
White Plains, NY 10607-1824
http://www.smpte.org/stds/stsubj.html
DirectDraw VPE and kernel-mode video transport white papers
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/devdes/
DTV and broadcast architecture white papers
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/pcfuture/bcast1.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/tv/
DVD Specification, Version 1.0, Toshiba Corporation.
http://www.toshiba.com
EIA Standard #ANSI/EIA-516-1988: “Joint EIA/CVCC Recommended Practice for Teletext: North American Basic Teletext Specification (NABTS).”
Electronic Industries Association
2500 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201-3834
http://www.eia.org/
IEC Publication 461
http://www.iec.ch/
Matsushita Electronics Incorporated (MEI) test disc
http://www.mei.co.jp
PC Card Standard Guidelines, Volume 10 (PC Card standards)
PCMCIA
2635 North First Street, Suite 209
San Jose, CA 95134 USA
Phone: (408) 433-2273
Fax: (408) 433-9558
E-mail: office@pcmcia.org
http://www.pc-card.com/
SFF 8090 (Mt. Fuji specification) and other SFF specifications
FaxAccess: (408) 741-1600 (fax-back)
Fax: (408) 867-2115
ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/pub/standards/SFF/specs/
Video Essentials test disc from Joe Kane Productions, Inc.
http://www.videoessentials.com/
WDM driver support white papers
http://www.microsoft.come/hwdev/pcfuture/
Windows NT DDK, Windows DDK, and DirectX DDK and SDK, including NDIS and broadcast services documentation
MSDN Professional membership