This supplementary standard defines a general purpose method to enable announcement of the technical attributes of program elements that must be supported in a receiving device to render programming on a particular virtual channel. It is not a replacement for fully-defined and optimized combinations of program elements defined for a particular service type, such as those established by A/53 and A/97.
Download A/71:2012, “ATSC Parameterized Services Standard”, approved 3 December 2012.
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