ATSC Issues Dominate 2013 IEEE Broadcast Symposium

Posted on November 7, 2013 in ATSC News

ATSC-related activities were front and center at the 2013 IEEE Broadcast Symposium held on Oct. 9-11 in San Diego. The BTS Administrative Committee decided this year to break with a many decade tradition and move the symposium out of the Washington, DC area, and they will be on the road in the coming years. With […]

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Member Profile: Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric

Posted on November 7, 2013 in ATSC News

Member Profile When Anthony Vetro started working at Mitsubishi Electric in 1996, he focused primarily on the design of video decoders. At the time, Mitsubishi was working together with Lucent Technologies on developing an integrated HDTV chip set including demodulation, demultiplexer, audio and video decoders and display processing functions (for more information click here). That […]

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ATSC 3.0 Physical Layer Picks Up Steam

Posted on November 7, 2013 in ATSC News

For a deep dive into technical proposals for the physical layer of the next-generation ATSC 3.0 standard, the ATSC hosted a three-day workshop last month where proponents conducted detailed tutorial presentations. This very special meeting of the ATSC S-32 Specialist Group brought together experts from around the world who pitched their ideas to a packed […]

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Digital TV Pioneer Wiley Honored

Posted on November 7, 2013 in ATSC News

Former FCC Chairman Joins ATSC’s Flaherty, Paik as ‘Giants of Broadcasting’ The Honorable Richard E. Wiley was honored at the 11th annual “Giants of Broadcasting” (giantsofbroadcasting.com) gala, sponsored by the Library of American Broadcasting in New York City on Oct. 16. As Chairman of the FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service from 1987-1996, he […]

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Presidents Memo

Posted on November 7, 2013 in ATSC News

Saluting ATSC’s Leaders “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations,” wrote management consultant Peter Drucker on the subject of leadership. Those words bring to mind sacrifice for the greater good and the comfort of […]

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Affordable Mobile Alerts Content Manager

Posted on October 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Serving Up the Affordable Mobile Alerts Content Manager By Jay Adrick, Harris Broadcast, Chairman ATSC Mobile EAS Implementation Team Broadcasters, hardware manufacturers and software suppliers are making great progress on developing the “Content Manager” for the ATSC-standard Mobile Emergency Alert System (M-EAS).  It’s a software-based solution designed to integrate with a station’s existing emergency alerting […]

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Future of Broadcast Television Initiative Progress Report

Posted on October 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Management and Technical Committees Meet at IBC 2013 As a founder of the global Future of Broadcast Television (FoBTV) initiative, the ATSC and its members are actively involved in pushing this effort forward. During last month’s International Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam, ATSC members were in attendance as the FoBTV Technical Committee reported progress since NAB […]

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Member Profile: Oren Williams

Posted on October 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Dolby Laboratories’ Oren Williams ‘Adventures in Television’ After stretching his rock and roll legs for a short summer after college, Dolby’s Oren Williams decided to put his engineering degree to work by kicking off his career with Tektronix, where he would explore the transition to new digital platforms used for digital audio and video signals.  […]

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ATSC 3.0 ‘Physical Layer’ Technical Proposals Being Evaluated

Posted on October 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Detailed ATSC 3.0  ‘Physical Layer’ Technical Proposals Being Evaluated Representing a major milestone in the development of the next-generation broadcast standard, the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) has received 11 detailed technical proposals for the Physical Layer of the “ATSC 3.0” broadcast TV transmission standard. The next big step in the process is a series […]

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President’s Memo

Posted on October 3, 2013 in ATSC News

Making Progress October marks the exciting culmination of many months of work with formal submission of detailed technical proposals for the Physical Layer of the next-generation ATSC 3.0 Standard. The Physical Layer development process continues this month with tutorial presentations from each respondent that has submitted a proposal.  In parallel with work on the Physical […]

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