For television to move from the analog to digital, there needed to be a way to compress the digital signal for widespread access. Dr. Paik, along with associates Marc Tayer, Jerry Heller, Ed Krause and Paul Moroney created Digicipher, a technology that could compress a digital signal for digital television use. By 1993, Dr. Paik and his fellow engineers had a concrete method for the transmission of an HDTV signal.