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Introduction

- Study Programme 3B/11 calls for the establishment, in an appropriate form, of the relationship between the objective parameters of impaired television signals and the subjective assessment of displayed picture quality;

- Recommendation 500 defines the methods of subjective assessment of television picture quality;

- Recommendation 567 describes the objective parameters of typical transmission impairment and measuring methods as well as the corresponding test signals;

- Report 1205 - gives the basis for processing the results of subjective tests and a law of combination which best covers the cumulative effect of a number of simultaneous distortions expressed individually by a numerical value;

- Report 313 gives a general bibliography of all documents related to the evaluation of the picture quality.