ATSC News

O ATSC, O ATSC, How Lovely Are Thy Standards

Posted on December 7, 2015 in ATSC News

By WAYNE BRETL Santa’s elves have been devising Presents delightful and surprising, With the help of ATSC For underneath your Christmas tree: There are presents you will find Of the next-gen broadcast kind.   ATSC elves have not been napping! First lets’ look at all the wrapping: There’s the Bootstrap! But what kind? (It’s ATSC […]

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President’s Memo – Hitting Milestones

Posted on November 3, 2015 in ATSC News

Hitting Milestones I am pleased to report that we’re hitting key milestones on the suite of next-generation television broadcasting standards known collectively as ATSC 3.0. On the heels of adopting the ATSC 3.0 Physical Layer Candidate Standard, Technology Group 3 (TG3) members are now in the process of voting to elevate four core sub-systems to […]

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Shanghai PlugFest Unites Engineers Backing ATSC 3.0

Posted on November 3, 2015 in ATSC News

Some 50 engineers and TV industry experts gathered in Shanghai, China in October to test the two ATSC 3.0 the Physical Layer Candidate Standards. Layers, the first two ingredients to reach Candidate Standards (A/321 and A/322).

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High Dynamic Range Planned for ATSC 3.0

Posted on November 3, 2015 in ATSC News

With streamed 4K content now including High Dynamic Range (HDR) capability and Ultra HD Blu-ray with HDR coming soon, work is also underway to include HDR in the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard.  Alan Stein, Vice President of Research & Development at Technicolor, is Chairman of the S34-1 ad hoc group on video technology, which is […]

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FEMA Lab to Assess Advanced Emergency Alerting Technology

Posted on November 3, 2015 in ATSC News

Life-Saving Technology Will Leverage ATSC 3.0 Standard   In anticipation of next-generation broadcasting with ATSC 3.0, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is assessing the feasibility of advanced new broadcast public alert and warning technology, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced.  ATSC Advanced Emergency Alerting will leverage the new capabilities inherent in ATSC 3.0 […]

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Gérard Faria – Someone You Should Know

Posted on November 3, 2015 in ATSC News

Gérard Faria is Chief Technology Officer of TeamCast, a company he co-founded in 2003 that is a worldwide supplier in digital modulation technologies for DTV and mobile TV, wireless video links and satellite transmission solutions.  An Electronic Engineering graduate from the University of Paris-Sud, Faria says it’s just by chance that he became involved in […]

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All About ATSC 3.0 – Looking at the Candidate Standard process

Posted on November 3, 2015 in ATSC News

This column reprinted with permission from TV Technology.   By JERRY WHITAKER, ATSC Vice President, Standards Development WASHINGTON—The Technology Group working to develop ATSC 3.0 (TG3) has just approved the core physical layer specification as a Candidate Standard. This document is the result of thousands of hours of work by a number of the world’s […]

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Sponsors – November

Posted on November 3, 2015 in ATSC News

And Now a Word from Our Sponsors…   ONE Media An integral player in the development of the ATSC 3.0 standard, ATSC sponsor ONE Media is a technical development company whose mission is to be the catalyst and driver of innovation for over-the-air broadcasters. ONE Media is at the forefront of the change to an IP-based […]

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Let’s Get Physical – President’s Memo

Posted on October 1, 2015 in ATSC News

As we enter what promises to be a very busy fourth quarter for the ATSC, we hit the pause button to celebrate a major milestone for ATSC 3.0 – the Physical Layer transmission system is now an ATSC Candidate Standard! This is the result of literally thousands of person-hours by some of the world’s leading […]

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ATSC 3.0 Takes IBC2015 by Storm

Posted on October 1, 2015 in ATSC News

By GLENN REITMEIER, NBC Universal ATSC Board Chairman ATSC members were well-represented at IBC2015, Europe’s broadcasting extravaganza held last month in Amsterdam.  A technical paper session chaired by CRC’s Yiyan Wu featured presentations by TG 3 Chairman Rich Chernock of Triveni Digital, Heung-Mook Kim of ETRI, Yungeng Guan of NERC-TV and Gerard Faia of Teamcast.  […]

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