New Digital TV Technologies To Be Demonstrated at 2012 NAB Show

Posted on April 2, 2012 in ATSC News

More than 20 educational sessions and presentations involving ATSC standards are planned over at April’s National Association of Broadcasters convention, with the capabilities and future needs of TV broadcasters taking center stage at this annual meeting of broadcasters.

ATSC members from three continents will demonstrate implementations of new work by the ATSC on DTV enhancements in the ATSC TechZone, which is located in the North Hall (N4039) at the LVH walkway. Among the companies and projects being showcased there:

• Dolby Laboratories will demonstrate how the TV experience could be better for the 25 million visually impaired people living in America, utilizing the enhancements of Dolby Digital Plus to provide Surround Descriptive Audio with ATSC-compatible streams.

• Samsung Electronics and the Korean Broadcast System (KBS) will demonstrate Real-Time Hybrid 3DTV Broadcasting of Full HD 3D content. The system uses the legacy 2D ATSC terrestrial channel for one of the two views, synchronized with broadband Internet streaming of the other.

• Open Smart Alliance (OSA) and KBS will be showing a DTV multicast service called “Korea-View” that is broadcast in MPEG-4 along with special receivers.  Korea-View is able to broadcast one HD program of 12Mbps MPEG-2 and three SD programs with 5Mbps MPEG-4.

• The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in cooperation with LG Electronics will show 3D TV broadcasting using one image transmitted via ATSC A/53 terrestrial broadcasting, and the second image using the ATSC A/153 Mobile DTV Standard.

• Linear Acoustics will demonstrate key products that address the new requirements of the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act.  AERO.lite 2-Channel Audio/ Loudness Manager helps broadcasters cost-effectively deliver CALM and R128 compliant audio.

• Canadian educators and engineering students from Ryerson University will showcase interactive prototype technology that utilizes ATSC’s A/153 Mobile DTV standard.  Ryerson will be demonstrating how Mobile DTV cam be used to bridge online resources with TV broadcasts.

• Germany-based Decontis will demonstrate its Simple Network Management Protocol enabled monitoring solution that analyzes and monitors all aspects of Mobile DTV and ATSC broadcasts.  The Decontis solution allows monitoring of up to eight complete ATSC/Mobile DTV multiplexes within a single server.

ATSC at NAB 2012:  Sessions Overview

Here’s a comprehensive list of where ATSC can be found in presentations at the 2012 Broadcast Engineering Conference and NAB Show:

April 15

9:00 AM- 9:30 AM

(S225)

BEC Opening Keynote: Developing Technology Solutions for a Changing Landscape

9:30 AM- 10:00 AM

(S225)

Progress in the ATSC’s Effort Toward ATSC 3.0: The Next Generation Broadcast Television System

3:30 PM- 4:00 PM

(S225)

High Efficiency Video Coding: Next Generation Compression Technology Driving New Business Models for Television

April 16

1:30 PM- 5:30 PM

(S227)

IEEE Tutorial: Broadcast and the Internet Connected TV

2:15 PM- 3:45 PM

(S222)

Mobile Video and Mobile TV- Beyond YouTube

2:30 PM- 3:45 PM

(N249)

A View From the Top with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski

April 17

9:30 AM- 11:30 AM

(S222)

The Future of Broadcast Television (FoBTV)

1:00 PM- 1:30 PM

(S228)

Datacasting: What’s Old is New Again using ATSC and ATSC-MH Broadcasts to Deliver Data to Remote Devices

1:30 PM- 2:00 PM

(S228)

Interactive Content Authoring for A/153 ATSC Mobile Digital Television Employing Open Source Tools

2:30 PM- 3:00 PM

(S228)

Use Gap-Filler Technology to Create ATSC MH “Hot-Spots”, a Field Study

3:30 PM- 4:00 PM

(S228)

Content Creation and Distribution Challenges for ATSC Mobile DTV

4:00 PM- 4:30 PM

(S228)

Mobile DTV Transmission and Status Report

4:30 PM- 5:00 PM

(S228)

Creation of a Library of RF Recorded Signals for ATSC Mobile DTV in a Single Frequency Network Environment

5:00 PM- 5:30 PM

(S228)

Mobile DTV and the Development of Non-Real-Time (NRT) Applications

5:30 PM- 6:00 PM

(S228)

Using Mobile DTV for Radio

April 18

12:30 PM- 2:00 PM

(LVH, Paradise (formerly Barron Room))

Technology Luncheon

2:00 PM- 2:30 PM

(S228)

Connected Television: Relationship to the Broadcaster

2:30 PM- 3:00 PM

(S228)

Basics of Over-the-Top Video for Broadcast Engineers

April 19

9:00 AM- 9:30 AM

(S227)

Enhancing the 3d TV Experience through Next-Generation 3D Audio Coding and Processing Technology

10:00 AM- 10:30 AM

(TBD)

SMPTE & 3D: Making It All Work Together

10:30 AM- 11:00 AM

(TBD)

Advanced ATSC Service with MPEG-4

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