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The ATSC Standard for Digital Television (DTV) encompasses a number of elements, documented in various Standards, Recommended Practices, and Implementation Guidelines. This resource serves as a guide to the these documents.

Function or Service	Primary Standard	Related Standards and RPs
DTV Audio Coding	A/52: Digital Audio Compression Standard (AC-3, E-AC-3)	A/53: ATSC DTV Standard A/54: Guide to the Use of the ATSC Digital Television Standard
DTV Video Coding	A/53: ATSC Digital Television Standard	A/54: Guide to the Use of the ATSC Digital Television Standard A/63: Standard for Coding 25/50 Hz Video
DTV Transmission System	A/53: ATSC Digital Television Standard	A/54: Guide to the Use of the ATSC Digital Television Standard A/64: Transmission Measurement and Compliance For Digital Television A/74: Receiver Performance Guidelines A/75: ATSC Recommended Practice for Developing DTV Field Test Plans A/110: Synchronization Standard for Distributed Transmission A/111: Design Of Synchronized Multiple Transmitter Networks A/112: E-VSB Implementation Guidelines
Program and System Information	A/65: Program and System Information Protocol for Terrestrial Broadcast and Cable	A/57: Program/Episode/Version Identification A/68: Use of ATSC A/65A PSIP Standard in Taiwan A/69: PSIP Implementation Guidelines Recommended Practice A/70: Conditional Access System for Terrestrial Broadcast A/71: ATSC Parameterized Services Standard A/76: Programming Metadata Communication Protocol Standard A/78: Transport Stream Verification
Data Broadcasting	A/90:ATSC Data Broadcast Standard	A/91: Implementation Guidelines for the ATSC Data Broadcast Standard A/92: Delivery of IP Multicast Sessions over ATSC Data Broadcast A/93: Synchronized/Asynchronous Trigger Standard A/94: Data Application Reference Model A/95: Transport Stream File System A/96: ATSC Interaction Channel Protocols A/97: Software Download Data Service A/98: System Renewability Message Transport
Interactive Television	A/101: Advanced Common Application Platform (ACAP)	A/100: DTV Application Software Environment - Level 1 (DASE-1) A/102: ACAP Service Signaling and Announcement
Satellite Systems	ATSC Satellite Transmission Standards	A/80: Modulation And Coding Requirements For Digital TV (DTV) Applications Over Satellite A/81: Direct-to-Home Satellite Broadcast Standard

Standards documents relating to digital television are available from the following sources:

ATSC	Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), 1750 K Street N.W., Suite 1200 Washington, D.C. 20006 USA; Phone 202-872-9160; Fax 202-872-9161; Internet http://www.atsc.org/standards.html
CableLabs	Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., 400 Centennial Parkway, Louisville, CO 80027-1266; Phone: 303-661-9100, Fax: 303- 661-9199; Internet: http://www.cablelabs.com.
CEA	Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), 2500 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201; Phone 703-907-7600, Fax 703-907-7675; Internet: http://www.ce.org
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, N.J. 08855-1331, USA; Phone 800-678-4333; outside USA and Canada 732-981-9667; Internet http://www.ieee.org; Email customer-service@ieee.org
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives, 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100, Reston, VA 20191-5434 USA; Phone 703-620-8990; Fax 703-758-5913; Internet: http://www.ietf.org/rfc
ISO	Global Engineering Documents, World Headquarters, 15 Inverness Way East, Englewood, CO 80112-5776; Phone 800-854-7179; Fax 303-397-2750; Internet http://global.ihs.com
ISO	ISO Central Secretariat, 1, rud de Varembe, Case postale 56, CH-1211 Geneve 20, Switzerland; Phone +41 22 749 01 11; Fax + 41 22 733 34 30; Internet http://www.iso.ch; Email central@iso.ch
SCTE	Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Inc., 140 Philips Road, Exton, PA 19341; Phone 610-363-6888; Fax 610-363-5898; Internet http://scte.org; Email scte@scte.org
SMPTE	Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, 595 W. Hartsdale Avenue, White Plains, NY 10607-1824; Phone 914-761-1100; Fax: 914-761-3115; Internet http://www.smpte.org.