Smart, Mobile, Ultra-Def Trends Defining Future of TV

Posted on February 1, 2012 in ATSC News

Navigating the crowded halls and sights and sounds of the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, I didn’t exactly have an epiphany. After all, I expected most of the new products introduced at the show to be more or less incremental advancements, not obvious harbingers of any game-changing revolution in the consumer media experience. But over the […]

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President’s Memo

Posted on February 1, 2012 in ATSC News

With an action-packed agenda for 2012, the ATSC and its members are hard at work on the exciting suite of backwards compatible enhancements to digital television broadcasting, an initiative we call ATSC 2.0. Among other things, ATSC 2.0 contemplates the marriage of broadcasting and the Internet — building on the recently completed work of the […]

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Advanced Television Systems Committee Endorses Declaration from Future of Broadcast TV Summit

Posted on November 11, 2011 in Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Goals of Global Cooperation Dovetail with ATSC 3.0 Standardization WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 2011 – The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) today endorsed the global declaration signed in China at the conclusion of the Future of Broadcast TV Summit, calling for the world’s TV broadcast technologists to work together on future improvements for broadcast […]

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Future of Broadcast Television Summit Declares Global Goals for Future of Broadcasting

Posted on November 11, 2011 in Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Participants Agree to Define Future Needs, Seek Unification of Various Standards, and Promote Technology Sharing SHANGHAI, Nov. 11, 2011 – Television broadcasting executives, technologists and engineers gathering this week in China agreed that a global approach to the future of terrestrial TV broadcasting is the ideal method to avoid competing standards, overlap, […]

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ATSC Board Names Rich Chernock as Next TSG Chairman

Posted on November 10, 2011 in Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, November 10, 2010 – The Board of Directors of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) have named Dr. Richard Chernock to be the next Chairman of the Technology and Standards Group (TSG). Dr. Chernock has been an active participant in ATSC for many years, most recently as Vice Chair of the […]

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New ATSC Board Members Elected

Posted on November 3, 2011 in Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mark Eyer, John Taylor, and Brett Jenkins elected to the Board of Directors WASHINGTON, November 03, 2010 – Members of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) have elected three individuals to the organization’s Board of Directors. Mark Eyer, Sony Corporation; John Taylor, LG Electronics; and Brett Jenkins, ION Media will each serve […]

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Advanced Television Systems Committee Issues Reports on Next-Generation Broadcast TV, Methods for 3D TV Broadcasts

Posted on October 19, 2011 in Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Comprehensive Planning Team Reports Pave Way for Future Enhancements to Broadcast Television WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2011 – The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has published final reports of two critical industry planning committees that have been investigating likely methods of enhancing broadcast TV with next-generation video compression, transmission and Internet Protocol technologies […]

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FOBTV Interview at IBC 2011

Posted on September 14, 2011 in Press Releases

In this interview, ATSC President Mark Richer discusses the process for developing next-generation television standards and the inaugural “Future of Broadcast Television (FOBTV)” Global Summit, scheduled for November in Shanghai, China.

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New ATSC Technology Group to Explore Next-Generation Broadcasting

Posted on September 6, 2011 in Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Long-Term Project Designed to Develop TV Standards Serving Viewers and Broadcasters for Decades to Come WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2011 –The Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. (ATSC) has formed a new technology group to develop “ATSC 3.0,” a series of voluntary technical standards and recommended practices for the next-generation digital terrestrial television broadcast […]

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Future of Broadcast Television Global Summit Announced

Posted on August 16, 2011 in Press Releases

International Collaboration Organizes Historic Event FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SHANGHAI and WASHINGTON, August 16, 2011 – Leading broadcast television associations, research laboratories and standards development organizations* from around the world have organized a strategic conference focused on the future of terrestrial broadcast television. The Future of Broadcast Television (FOBTV) Summit will be held to foster global […]

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