ATSC News

Charting the Future

Posted on March 5, 2014 in ATSC News

These organization charts that show TG3’s structure and the many areas for member involvement. There are four Specialist Groups: S31, System Requirements & Program Management; S32, Physical Layer; S33, Management & Protocols; and S34, Applications & Presentation Layer. Under each Specialist Group are a number of Ad-Hoc Groups, each working on critical elements of the […]

Read Article »

---

Member Profile: Youngkwon Lim

Posted on March 5, 2014 in ATSC News

ATSC TG3-S33 Chairman Dr. Youngkwon Lim is a senior manager at Samsung Electronics, Ltd. He’s playing a key role ATSC 3.0 development, hard at work as the chair of TG3-S33: Specialist Group on Management and Protocols. The S33 specialist group assesses technical proposals and develops draft Standards and Recommended Practices related to technologies for the […]

Read Article »

---

NAB & Annual Meeting Update

Posted on March 5, 2014 in ATSC News

2014 NAB Show and ATSC Annual Meeting NAB 2014 The ATSC is preparing for an exciting 2014 NAB Show in Las Vegas next month.  Along with numerous papers and presentations, the ATSC will be hosting two key events at the show. The ATSC Pavilion will be located in the North Hall. Exhibitors ETRI, ATSC 2.0, […]

Read Article »

---

Jenkins Joins ATSC Board

Posted on March 5, 2014 in ATSC News

The ATSC has named Brett Jenkins, Vice President Chief Technology Officer of LIN Media, to the organization’s Board of Directors. Jenkins has been elected to fill the seat vacated by Jim Kutzner, PBS, upon his retirement. As LIN Media’s Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Jenkins oversees the company’s engineering and IT functions and advises […]

Read Article »

---

President’s Memo

Posted on February 3, 2014 in ATSC News

February 2014 One thing is clear from the 2014 International CES, which wrapped three weeks ago: Ultra High-Definition TV is coming in a big way.  Virtually every TV brand, large and small, rolled out a cornucopia of Ultra HD 4K offerings – from dazzling 21:9 widescreen industrial displays to flexible screens, eye-popping OLED demos, and […]

Read Article »

---

Ultra HD Dominates at CES

Posted on February 3, 2014 in ATSC News

By Brian Markwalter Senior Vice President, Consumer Electronics Association Once again International CES set the stage for an amazing year of technology innovation with a record 2 million net square feet of exhibit space housing more than 3,200 exhibitors in Las Vegas last month.  Ultra High-Definition TVs, Hi-Res audio, smartphones and tablets, 3D printers, connected […]

Read Article »

---

ATSC Ballot Update

Posted on February 3, 2014 in ATSC News

A/72 and A/107 Votes Due This Month A TG1 ballot is currently open on the “A/107 Working Draft ATSC 2.0 Standard.” This document is a top-level specification of the ATSC 2.0 fixed-broadcast digital television services, which augment the digital television services defined in the A/53 ATSC Digital Television Standard. As a top-level document, this standard […]

Read Article »

---

ATSC Seeks Watermarking Tech

Posted on February 3, 2014 in ATSC News

With an initial response deadline of March 14, the ATSC has issued a Call for Proposals seeking audio and/or video “watermarking” technologies for Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to help enable interactive applications and other features of the ATSC 3.0 broadcast TV standard.   The scope of this Call for Proposals is limited to a watermarking solution […]

Read Article »

---

ATSC Technology Shines at CES

Posted on February 3, 2014 in ATSC News

By Richard Doherty, ENVISIONEERING The 2014 International CES 2014 likely lit up more pixels than any trade show in history. More displays packing in more entertainment than Times Square, Piccadilly Circus and the Ginza combined! Behind all those displays are communications channels. Consider: ATSC standards convey more of those live pixels to consumer audiences than […]

Read Article »

---

Board Members Elected; Chairman Reitmeier Re-Elected

Posted on February 3, 2014 in ATSC News

ATSC members elected three industry executives to serve on the ATSC Board of Directors for three-year terms beginning January 2014. At its January meeting, the board also re-elected NBU Universal’s Glenn Reitmeier as Chairman of the ATSC Board of Directors for 2014. Former ATSC Chairman John Godfrey of Samsung, whose earlier board term expired a […]

Read Article »

---