[Broadcast Engineering]
The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) said Oct. 19 it has published final reports of two critical industry planning committees 19 that have been investigating likely methods of enhancing broadcast TV with next-generation video compression, transmission and Internet Protocol technologies and developing scenarios for the transmission of 3-D programs via local broadcast TV stations.
The final reports of the ATSC Planning Teams on 3D-TV (PT-1) and on ATSC 3.0 Next Generation Broadcast Television (PT-2) are available now for download from the ATSC website on this link: atsc.org/cms/index.php/standards/other-technical-documents/262-planning-team-reports
The documents summarize nearly a year of investigation by teams of broadcast industry experts, working through the ATSC. According to ATSC president Mark Richer, the conclusions of the planning committees set the stage for “important ATSC standardization work.”
“We are exploring backwards compatible approaches to 3-D transmissions, among other things, in our TG1 Technology Group while the new TG3 Technology Group is embarking on the longer-term project to define and standardize ATSC 3.0,” he said. …
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