Posted on October 1, 2018 in ATSC News
Two legendary ATSC gurus will be honored in October by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. SMPTE is presenting its most prestigious award, the 2018 Progress Medal, to Dolby’s Craig Todd, ATSC board member and long-time ATSC volunteer leader and Merrill Weiss, long-time ATSC volunteer leader and Lechner Award honoree, will receive the 2018 Excellence in Standards Award “in recognition of more than four decades of participation and more than three decades of leadership in the development of SMPTE’s standards.”
Posted on October 1, 2018 in ATSC News
The busy fourth quarter kicks off with face-to-face ATSC meetings co-located with the Consumer Technology Association’s Tech and Standards Fall Forum, the first week of October in Hollywood, Calif. ATSC Implementation Teams for Conformance, Advanced Emergency Alerting, and Personalization & Interactivity also are gearing up for the fall this month. October meetings, events and dates of interest to ATSC members, industry colleagues and key stakeholders.
Posted on October 1, 2018 in ATSC News
The Consumer Technology Association™ (CTA) is one of the ATSC’s five founding organizations in 1983 (along with the NAB, NCTA, SMPTE and IEEE). ATSC 2018 sponsor CTA is the trade association that represents the $377 billion U.S. consumer technology industry, which supports more than 15 million U.S. jobs. More than 2,200 companies – 80 percent are small businesses and startups; others are among the world’s best known brands – enjoy the benefits of CTA membership including policy advocacy, market research, technical education, industry promotion, standards development and the fostering of business and strategic relationships.
Posted on October 1, 2018 in ATSC News
“Broadcaster adoption of the new ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard will allow stations to reach the growing number of portable media devices that are garnering more of the time Americans spend consuming media.”
-Mary Collins, President and CEO, Media Financial Management Association
Posted on September 7, 2018 in Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2018 – The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (BTS) and the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) are partnering with the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) to help educate the industry on the implementation and benefits of Next Gen TV powered by the new ATSC 3.0 standard. SBE and ATSC […]
Posted on September 3, 2018 in ATSC News
Along the Road to ATSC 3.0, we’re approaching some important mileposts. Mileposts that we’re seeking in the United States include continued progress on the Phoenix Model Station project as experienced first-hand by FCC Chairman Pai, as well as public broadcasters’ Next Gen TV preparations led by Public Media Co., APTS and others, also highlighted in this issue.
Posted on September 3, 2018 in ATSC News
Pioneering U.S. terrestrial broadcasters are looking for next-generation TV to transform their businesses, providing them with a flexible system that helps them offer new services previously not possible. In these early days of ATSC 3.0, select commercial broadcasters are testing the technology and the business models through two main consortia of commercial broadcasters: Spectrum Co and Pearl TV.
Posted on September 3, 2018 in ATSC News
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai VISITED Phoenix late last month, meeting with broadcasters and consumer electronics companies behind the Phoenix Model Market, the groundbreaking Next Gen TV launchpad that signed “on the air” with its first ATSC 3.0 station just before the NAB Show.
Posted on September 3, 2018 in ATSC News
South Korea literally paved the Road to ATSC 3.0, adopting its Next Gen TV standard in 2016 and launching 4K UHD ATSC 3.0 broadcasts in May 2017. Momentum continues to build since the landmark UHD broadcasts this year of the Winter Olympics and World Cup – Korean consumers are beginning to embrace Next Gen TV powered by ATSC 3.0.
Posted on September 3, 2018 in ATSC News
In the Chat Room this month, THE STANDARD sat down with former ATSC Board Chairman Glenn Reitmeier, who was just volunteered to lead the new ATSC Planning Team on Future Video Technologies. The Senior Vice President at NBC Universal has been heavily involved in digital television since its inception, from his days at Sarnoff during the ATSC 1.0 development days a generation ago.
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