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| New Year's Greeting from
the New Executive Director-General of Engineering Toward the realization of new dreams  Hiroshi
NAKAMURA, General Managing Director/Executive Director-General of Engineering, NHK Digital BS broadcasting services*1 commenced in Japan on December 1 of last year. This development will bring about full scale digital Hi-Vision broadcasting with its high-quality picture and audio, as well as data broadcasting for dispatching the latest news, weather forecasts, program-related information and so on. Last year will long be remembered as the inaugural year of the full-scale digitization of broadcasting. I sincerely express our deepest gratitude for the efforts made by all the persons who have worked in many related fields in preparation for this day. The NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories celebrated their 70th anniversary last June. In these 70 years, broadcasting media in Japan have advanced from radio to black-and-white TV, and then to color TV. Now, after a long period of development, the flower of ISDB (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting) has bloomed, along with satellite broadcasting and Hi-Vision broadcasting. I think that our current situation is very similar to that just after the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, which was called the "Broadcasting Olympics." Our predecessors in NHK engineering sowed the seeds for future technological development even during the intense work of preparing for the Olympics, always attempting to bring engineering dreams to fruition. Since then, a wide range of continuing and patient vanguard studies, carried out steadily by groups of researchers and engineers, have brought us to the present day. This gives us deep pride and happiness. I strongly believe that those who participate in the broadcasting field, even as researchers or engineers, are members of the news media, and therefore journalists. As engineers, it is our mission and desire to contribute to the creation and development of broadcasting culture through technical advancement. Our draft Mid-to long-Term Plan*2 is based on this concept and will guide our activities into the post-ISDB era. In view of the drastic social transformations around us, including the fusion of broadcasting and communications, I would like to reiterate that the needs of our viewers are the starting point for our research. A long period is necessary to realize dreams. Any revolution in broadcasting technology originates from the dreams of individual engineers. The time has come to take the first step toward the realization of new dreams, cultivating the soil for new research studies and sowing new seeds. The longer the road to the destination, the greater the need for the travelers to support and encourage each other along the way. To this end, we will continue to endeavor to transform ourselves into "open laboratories," capable of fuller external cooperation worldwide. We sincerely ask for your continued guidance and encouragement in this and other respects.
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