ATSC at NAB
 The 2010 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nevada was a huge success for the ATSC, and we’re back again in 2011! The ATSC and NAB are proud to announce two important areas at this year’s show, the ATSC/OMVC Mobile DTV Pavilion and the ATSC TechZone. Spaces are available to member companies who wish to demonstrate ATSC related technologies.
ATSC TechZone – North Hall adjacent to Mobile DTV Pavilion, Booth N4334
Only ONE SPACE remains - this area will be dedicated to technologies related to new and emerging ATSC standards including Audio Loudness, Non-Real Time, ATSC 2.0, broadcast 3DTV and other areas of interest. ATSC Members are being offered 10x10 pod spaces, including select furnishings, graphics, and extras, for a sponsorship price of $5,000. Again, only ONE SPACE remains available for purchase. Contact
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The CALM Pace at the ATSC TechZone – a demo planned for the above mentioned ATSC TechZone is the CALM Place – The ATSC feels it is important to provide a comprehensive demo of loudness management using Recommended Practice A/85 as it relates to the CALM act. We expect FCC and other government officials to visit the TechZone and one of our goals is to show a unified industry behind A/85 and the CALM Act. The cost of sponsorship will be $1,000 per company. The ATSC will issue a press release specific to this demonstration and will mention all sponsors, along with general signage and logos prominently displayed at the demo site.
Current sponsors are DaySequerra/DTS, Dolby, IneoQuest, Linear Acoustic, NBC Universal, NCTA, and Univision. If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Lindsay Shelton-Gross.
Mobile DTV Pavilion Sponsored by the ATSC and OMVC – Booth N4036
Located in the North Hall, will Pavilion will be a partnership between the ATSC and the OMVC. One space is still available in the Mobile DTV Pavilion - if you are interested in participating, please contact
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with NAB to immediately reserve your space.
2011 ATSC Annual Meeting
 Online Registration for the 2011 ATSC Annual Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, May 10th at the Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, DC is now open!
We are proud to announce Senator Gordon Smith of the NAB and Mr. Keiichi Kubota of NHK will be keynote speakers at the event.
Additional program details will follow in upcoming weeks, so please keep checking back. Please visit the Annual Meeting page to register and view additional information on current sponsors, program additions and more
Thanks to our current Gold Sponsors: Harris, IEEE BTS, LG Electronics, and Samsung ; and our Silver Sponsors: Ericsson and Thomson.
Interested in sponsoring the Annual Meeting? Several levels of sponsorship are available! Contact Lindsay for more details.
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Sponsor the 2011 ATSC People & Progress
The Advanced Television Systems Committee is in the process of creating the 2010-2011People & Progress Annual Publication. This full color, approximately 20 page “yearbook" will be provided to the entire ATSC membership, as well as outside organizations, and will be used as a recruiting tool for new members into our Standards family - an approximate circulation of 500+.
Feature stories about the past year’s work, as well as updated member lists, organizational charts, many photos, and other vital basic information about the ATSC are included in this publication.
Sponsorship levels available to members include:
- $2500 Full Page ad and logo in member directory
- $1000 half page ad
- $500 quarter page ad
Please contact
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today to become a sponsor!
Patent Statements
Patent Disclosure and Licensing Statements are available on the ATSC web site on the ATSC Policies page.
Statements recently submitted to ATSC include Samsung (A/153), LG Electronics (A/153) and S.Merrill Weiss (A/110).
ATSC Activity Report
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TSG/S4 Specialist Group on ATSC Mobile DTV
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An updated version of the A/153 Scalable Full Channel Mobile Mode Candidate Standard has been approved by TSG/S4 that consolidates the specification into an amended Part 1 and a new Part 9. Publication of the updated CS is pending. Separately, TSG has authorized a ballot on the SFCMM CS as a Proposed Standard. Issuance of the ballot is pending.
A Working Draft Recommended Practice on ATSC Mobile DTV focusing on the management layer has been approved by TSG ballot as a Proposed Recommended Practice. Comments were received during the ballot and resolved. A reballot of TSG was approved and issuance of the ATSC Membership ballot is pending. Work meanwhile continues in the presentation layer AHG to develop draft text, which may be rolled into the RP as an amendment.
A Working Draft Amendment to A/153 Part 2, "RF/Transmission System Characteristics," has been approved by TSG as a Proposed Standard. Comments were received during the ballot and resolved. The planned changes are substantive and will be submitted to TSG for reballot. At the same time, additional adjustments to A/153 Part 2 were identified based on work underway in TSG/S9 on A/53 Part 2. TSG has approved rolling those changes into the reballot, which is pending.
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TSG/S5 Specialist Group on Transmission Infrastructure
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The Working Draft standard for studio-to-transmitter link (STL) systems used to support ATSC Mobile DTV is currently at TSG ballot as a Proposed Standard. The system has been documented as a revision of A/110, "Synchronization Standard for Distributed Transmission. The ballot closed on 7 March 2011.
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TSG/S6 Specialist Group on Video and Audio Coding
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Work is underway to draft a new annex for A/85, "Techniques for Establishing and Maintaining Audio Loudness for Digital Television." The annex will identify elements of the document that are vital to controlling loudness variations among program elements.
Work is expected to begin soon on an update to A/52:2010 that will address certain issues identified by SCTE. Liaison is currently underway.
Work is underway to consider the differences between A/72, "Video System Characteristics of AVC in the ATSC Digital Television System," and SCTE-128, and to develop a recommendation for changes to A/72.
The Board has requested that standards be developed to permit the use of E-AC-3 as well as AAC/HE AAC/HE AAC v2 in the main broadcast services. Two documents are likely to result; work has yet to formally begin.
Work is pending to merge A/63, "Standard for Coding 25/50 Hz Video," into A/53 Part 4.
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TSG/S7 Specialist Group on Security
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A draft Amendment to A/153 Part 6, "Service Protection," has been approved by TSG as a Proposed Standard. Comments were received during the ballot and are being resolved within the specialist group.
TSG has elevated a Working Draft Standard on "Conditional Access System for Terrestrial Broadcast, Part 2 – IP" (A/70-2), to Candidate Standard. The CS period has been extended to run until 4 August 2011.
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TSG/S8 Specialist Group on Transport
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A sub-group within TSG/S8 is developing a Working Draft RP on the broadcast station workflow aspects of handling local live updates to PSIP-related metadata. A date for completion of the Working Draft has not yet been set.
Document maintenance is underway on A/53 Part3, "Service Multiplex and Transport Subsystem Characteristics;" A/65, "Program And System Information Protocol For Terrestrial Broadcast And Cable;" and A/69, "Program and System Information Protocol Implementation Guidelines for Broadcasters."
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TSG/S9 Specialist Group on Transmission
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Updates to A/53 Part 2:2007, "RF/Transmission Subsystem," are being collected into a Working Draft amendment. The changes will be rolled into the E-VSB removal work currently underway.
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TSG/S10 Specialist Group on Receivers
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Work is underway to develop a Recommended Practice on ATSC Mobile DTV Receiver Performance Guidelines. This document will mirror the scope of A/74, "Receiver Performance Guidelines," but focus on mobile services.
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TSG/S11 Specialist Group on ATSC 2.0
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This newly formed SG is a coordinating group under TSG for ATSC 2.0. TSG/S11 will draw upon the existing specialists groups working on ATSC 2.0, currently TSG/S7 and TSG/S13 (namely, S13-1 and S13-2), serving in a guidance and coordination role.
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TSG/S13 Specialist Group on Data Broadcast
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TSG has elevated a Working Draft Standard on Non-Real-Time (NRT) services to Candidate Standard. The CS period has been extended by TSG to run until 10 October 2011.
Work has begun to develop elements of ATSC 2.0. Work relating to new NRT features will be done in the S13-1 AHG; other elements of the work will be done in the S13-2 AHG.
TSG-676, "Caption Carriage in E-VSB and with New Codecs," is being revised. Work expected to begin soon on revising A/90 and A/91.
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TSG-5 AHG
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This TSG-level AHG has completed its initial work in developing a draft document set that removes E-VSB functionality from A/53, "The Digital Television Standard," and other documents. E-VSB has been overtaken by events with the approval of the ATSC Mobile DTV Standard. The results of the AHG work have been transferred to the specialist groups that are the caretakers of the affected documents, which include TSG/S6, TSG/S8 and TSG/S9.
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TSG-6 AHG
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This TSG-level AHG, responsible for coordinating initial work on ATSC 2.0, has completed its task and has been marked inactive.
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Planning Teams
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PT-1 – 3D TV: This group is developing an initial report to the ATSC Board on the potential for 3D television services, and need for standardization if any. PT-1 has produced interim reports on human visual factors, and on technology.
PT-2 – Next Generation Broadcast Television. The second Symposium on Next Generation Broadcast Television was held on 15 February 2011 in Rancho Mirage, CA. Papers covering a wide range of topics were presented. An initial report is expected in May.
PT-3 – Internet-Enhanced Television. This group continues to meet by teleconference and collect information that will assist in developing a recommendation for possible future activity in this area by ATSC. Some of the information collected was identified to be potentially useful to the TSG groups working on ATSC 2.0. Liaison with the appropriate groups is underway. Drafting of an initial report is expected to begin soon.
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Ballots
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The TSG Ballot, Working Daft Revision of A/110, closed on 7 March 2011 The following ATSC Membership ballot is pending: A/153 Proposed Recommended Practice
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ATSC Membership
In our continual quest for new participants, we’d like to ask current member organizations to encourage non-member companies they may be associated with to join the ATSC – standards work is lead by our active members, and we welcome new faces! For more information on how to join the ATSC, please direct potential new members to the membership area of the ATSC Website.
ATSC Standards... Available in Print!
Recommeded Paractice A/74 has been added to the ATSC online store. Just follow the links to purchase full color professionally bound copies of recommended practices A/74 and A/85 and the Mobile DTV standard A/153. We hope to add additional standards documents for purchase in the upcoming weeks.
Save your printer ink and instead, buy a copy for the low prices listed online.
All standards and recommended practices will remain available for download at the ATSC website.
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