The HD4U project is a European Research and advanced development project and is part of the 7 th Call ITEA programme, itself a “cluster” organisation within the EUREKA framework.

HD4U “High Definition TV for Europe ” is offering an innovative approach that will deliver an end-to-end generic solution for the HD market, based on the MPEG4-AVC compression scheme and some other key enabling technologies as pre/post signal processing, end-to-end quality of experience relevant to HDTV broadcasting. HD4U will also study the business scenarios and will address the experimentation of the HD service adoption on various networks.