Over-the-Air 4K Will Come…

Posted on December 9, 2014 in ATSC News

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS DAILY, NOV. 13, 2014 When it comes to deployment of the next-gen ATSC 3.0 broadcast system, “I think there’s going to be a good business proposition and a good financial proposition for 4K,” Dave Siegler, vice president-tech­nical operations at Cox, told us at NAB’s Content and Communications World conference in New York Wednesday. […]

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Advanced Television Systems Committee Invites Audio System Proposals for ATSC 3.0

Posted on December 5, 2014 in Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Next Generation of Television to Offer Expanded Audio Functionality for Wide Variety of Devices WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2014 – As part of the move to a next-generation TV standard, the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) today issued a Call for Proposals for a comprehensive audio system for the emerging ATSC 3.0 standard, […]

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President’s Memo

Posted on November 4, 2014 in ATSC News

Gratitude for Progress & Cooperation November is a month when gratitude is very much on the agenda, with American colleagues now just a few weeks away from celebrating annual Thanksgiving holidays.  Family and friends will soon gather together to share good times, to remember the past year and to give thanks. At the ATSC, we’re […]

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Intensive Ecosystem Sessions Plan ATSC 3.0 Workflow

Posted on November 4, 2014 in ATSC News

Intensive Ecosystem Sessions Plan ATSC 3.0 Workflow To insure the seamless flow of content and information through TV broadcast station encoders and systems that will someday transmit ATSC 3.0, a highly-focused specialist group is analyzing all of the touchpoints between the content and the consumer. This need to consider the ATSC 3.0 “ecosystem” led to […]

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ATSC 3.0 ‘Transition Scenarios’ Being Explored

Posted on November 4, 2014 in ATSC News

ATSC 3.0 ‘Transition Scenarios’ Being Explored In parallel with the development work on the ATSC 3.0 standard, an ad hoc group of the ATSC Board of Directors is exploring the technical possibilities for “Transition Scenarios.” Members are looking at various possibilities for how broadcasters and consumers might migrate from the ATSC 1.0 digital television standard […]

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And The Emmy Goes To…

Posted on November 4, 2014 in ATSC News

The ATSC will be awarded a Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at the upcoming 2015 International CES for the collaborative effort to address wide variations in TV audio (which can be particularly annoying during commercial breaks.) “The concrete action by the ATSC to develop an automated method to […]

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Someone You Should Know

Posted on November 4, 2014 in ATSC News

Pablo Angueira, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Dr. Pablo Angueira, Associate Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), began his career in television as a doctoral candidate student to the Department of Communication Engineering at the Spain’s University of the Basque Country. “I worked on the evaluation and network planning aspects of […]

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Standards Update

Posted on November 4, 2014 in ATSC News

Out With (some of) The Old, In With The New Most of the news this month with ever-evolving ATSC standards concerns “coming attractions,” based on activities that are underway. Existing Standards “ATSC policies suggest reviewing published standards every five years, and a number of documents relating to the original ATSC digital TV standard are either […]

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Emmy® Goes to ATSC for Controlling Loud Commercials

Posted on October 15, 2014 in Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATSC Recommended Practice for Digital TV Hailed for Improving Audio, Delighting Viewers WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2014 – The Advanced Television Systems Committee’s (ATSC) collaborative effort to address wide variations in TV audio is winning recognition with a Primetime Emmy® Engineering Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. “We’re extremely proud […]

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President’s Memo

Posted on October 1, 2014 in ATSC News

Lots of things are going on in the world of “new media” these days. The ways we consume content continue to evolve.  Spectrum is becoming more scarce. The pace of change is accelerating.  Not to sound like an alarmist, but I fear that television broadcasting may be left behind.  The threats are real and becoming […]

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