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Next-Generation Broadcast Television Systems

 

 

 

 

In Chapter 16, the ATSC Digital Television is described in its current form at this writing. That description included the original ATSC DTV system (now retrospectively called “ATSC 1.0”), as well as some of its backwardly compatible upgrades known as ATSC 2.0. This chapter will summarize what is envisioned for the next generation of ATSC DTV, called ATSC 3.0.

As mentioned in Chapter 16, the ATSC DTV format is used for terrestrial digital television broadcasting in North America, S. Korea, and parts of Central America. Other parts of the world use one of the three other worldwide DTV format “families” detailed in Chapter 2—DVB, ISDB, or DTMB—or are still broadcasting ...

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