Posted on February 21, 2024 in ATSC News
Since the last issue of The Standard newsletter, three new documents have been approved and will be published soon on the ATSC web site — A/336:2024-02, A/344:2024-02, and A/362:2024-02.
A/336:2024-02, “Content Recovery in Redistribution Scenarios,” includes a recently passed amendment titled, “Improved Timeline Recovery.” This amendment, approved by the ATSC membership on 15 February 2024, updated A/336 for the purpose of improving the reliability of media time recovery from the video watermark in reduced-quality redistribution environments.
A/344:2024-02, “ATSC 3.0 Interactive Environment,” is a revision of A/344 that was approved by the ATSC membership on 13 February 2024. This annual update of A/344 reflects recent work to refine and expand the ATSC 3.0 interactive environment. Among the changes are:
These and other changes were included in the Candidate Standard revision of A/344 approved by TG3 and first posted last May.
A/362:2024-02, “Digital Rights Management (DRM), which includes a recently passed amendment titled, “DRM Operation for MMT.” This amendment, approved by the ATSC membership on 14 February 2024, describes recommended practices for DRM for use with content delivery based on the MMT protocol. A/362:2023-03 considered DRM for use with content delivery based on the ROUTE/DASH protocol, but not MMT.
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