ATSC News
Sony-Pearl Group Field Tests Demonstrate Robust ATSC 3.0 Mobility
SAN DIEGO—Sony has released a white paper detailing field tests it recently did on mobility reception via ATSC 3.0 (aka “NextGen TV”). The tests, conducted with broadcasters from Pearl TV Group in Phoenix and News-Press and Gazette in Santa Barbara, Calif., demonstrated the advantages of using ATSC 3.0 for mobile reception, not just for consumer […]
Someone You Should Know: Heidi Steffen, TitanTV
Heidi Steffen was part of a product development team at TitanTV for Mobile DTV that never got off the ground, so when she learned about ATSC 3.0, it piqued her intrigue about what the future of television could become. “I could see how this new standard had a much better chance of getting off the […]
March Happenings
March 1 India Implementation Team March 2 TG3/S36, Specialist Group on ATSC 3.0 Security Planning Team 6 – Global Recognition of ATSC 3.0 March 3 TG3/S32, Specialist Group on Physical Layer SFN/STL SG TG3/S31, Specialist Group on System Requirements ATSC 3.0 Conformance Implementation Team March 4 Brazil Implementation Team TG3/S41, Specialist Group on Video March […]
AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR…DigiCap Co., Ltd.
For the past 20 years DigiCAP Co.,Ltd. has used advanced software development to make television and telecom systems easier to use, less costly, and more profitable. Last week, DigiCAP posted the industry’s first ATSC 3.0 cloud air chain on AWS Marketplace This is a cloud version of DigiCaster, DigiCAP’s popular ATSC 3.0 air chain which […]
AWARN ALLIANCE ELECTS 2021 STEERING COMMITTEE; TAYLOR ELECTED CHAIR, DECHANT VICE CHAIR
ORGANIZATION’S UPDATED VISION AND MISSION SUPPORT VOLUNTARY SOLUTIONS FOR ADOPTING ADVANCED EMERGENCY ALERTING AND INFORMING POWERED BY NEXTGEN TV WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2021 – The AWARN Alliance has elected its 2021 Steering Committee, the organization’s governing body that provides guidance to the AWARN Alliance and its executive director. The Alliance also clarified its core education, promotion and […]
New SBE Certification: ATSC3 Specialist
The Society of Broadcast Engineers, in its continuing effort to advance its Program of Certification, has added a new Specialist Certification to its offerings: The ATSC3 Specialist. The new level of certification was developed by the Society of Broadcast Engineers Certification Committee, chaired by Ralph Hogan, CPBE, DRB, CBNE, with direct assistance from the Advanced Television Systems […]
Year of the Ox
February 12, 2021 ushers in the Year of the Ox, and we wish our colleagues across the world a Happy Lunar New Year. According to one myth, the order the animals arrived at the Jade Emperor’s party determined the order of the zodiac calendar. The Ox was about to be first, but the Rat tricked […]
CES 2021 Rewind
By BRIAN MARKWALTER Senior Vice President, Technology & Research, Consumer Technology Association Two years ago, my post-CES® article in this newsletter began, “CES 2019 was another one for the record books…” – and so it is again this year, only in ways we never expected. CES 2021 made history as the largest digital tech event […]
ATSC Datacasting Paves Way for Flexibility of ATSC 3.0 in Distance Education
Covid Changes Here to Stay for Teachers and Students? Four experts working on different facets of distance education told hundreds of viewers watching an ATSC-sponsored session during early January’s CES that ATSC 3.0 and its Internet Protocol backbone is ideally positioned to help bridge the digital divide, since television itself is virtually a ubiquitous […]
FCC Modifies DTS Rules for ATSC 3.0 Flexibility
WASHINGTON—The FCC released an update to its DTS (distributed transmission system) coverage rules to expand the permissible range of signal spillover and replace the subjective “minimal amount” language used to describe spillovers as a way to promote ATSC 3.0 reaching its full potential. The change gives broadcasters more flexibility in placement of DTS transmitters. For […]
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