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(TV Tech): Ateme, Verance Integrate Aspect Watermarking With TITAN Transcoder
PARIS—Ateme and Verance have integrated Verance’s Aspect Watermarking within the audio chain of Ateme’s TITAN transcoders, the companies said. The move makes possible widely distributed NextGen TV interactive experiences and gives North American broadcasters the chance to drive new business models, create personalized offerings and investigate new ways to monetize the standard, they said. >>>Read […]
ATSC Standards Update: Membership Approves Annual A300 Refresh
Since the last issue of The Standard newsletter, three new documents have been published on the ATSC web site — A/336:2024-02, A/344:2024-02, and A/362:2024-02, which were the result of three amendments described in the last Standards Update column. The annual refresh of A/300, “ATSC 3.0 System,” has just been approved. In the ballot, which closed […]
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A Word from Our Sponsors
We are less than two weeks from the show floor opening at NAB 2024! ATSC and members will be exhibiting in the Las Vegas Convention Center’s beautiful West Hall, Booth W3056. Here is a sneak peek of the ATSC booth! The ATSC booth will be anchored by several Platinum Sponsors including: Pearl TV: RUN3TV, a […]
Hearty named Chair of ATSC Standards Technology Group
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2024 – The Board of Directors of ATSC, the broadcast standards association, has named Dr. Paul Hearty of Samsung Electronics as Chair of the ATSC technology group that oversees the ATSC 3.0 suite of standards. Effective May 15, Hearty will succeed Sony’s Luke Fay, who has been ATSC Technology Group 3 Chair […]
APTS Honors Outgoing Leader Pat Butler with Lifetime Achievement Award, and Recognizes Lonna Thompson with Champion of Public Broadcasting Award
Two very familiar leaders in the public broadcasting sector won recognition this past week as America’s Public TV Stations (APTS) met for their annual gathering in Washington. America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) has presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to Patrick Butler, president and chief executive officer of APTS. Rarely awarded, the APTS Lifetime Achievement Award […]
ATSC 3.0 NextGenTV OTA TV Makes Changes to Help DVRs
For months now, ATSC 3.0 has had a serious issue with DRM, preventing it from being able to work with network DVRs like the Tablo or HDHomeRun. This meant if a channel had DRM on it you wouldn’t be able to stream it over your home network through a DVR. Now, though, the team behind […]
President’s Memo: ATSC is Swimming Like a Duck
Have you ever watched a duck swim? By all outwards appearances, they appear calm, collected, just swimming along. But beneath the surface, they are paddling their feet at a feverish pace just to keep going. And, that my friends, is ATSC right now! We have just completed another amazingly successful show at CES 2024 and […]
(TV Tech): ChannelMaster.com Now Shipping Zinwell NextGen TV Receiver
WASHINGTON—Channel Master has begun shipping the new Zinwell NextGen TV receiver, adding the latest option for members of the public wishing to benefit from many of the features of ATSC 3.0 while continuing to use their existing televisions. Pearl TV, a business organization consisting of eight television station groups backing NextGen TV, expects the receiver […]
(TV Tech): Chicago Television Stations Launch NextGen TV Services
CHICAGO—Viewers in America’s third-largest television market now have access to NextGen TV with the launch of ATSC 3.0 broadcasts by five Chicago stations. The launch makes Chicago the latest large market to begin offering NextGen TV, aka ATSC 3.0, broadcasts in recent months. It follows the launch of services in New York in October, the […]
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