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Wondering which cities will get ATSC 3.0, otherwise known as NextGen TV? We've got the full rollout plan for this major upgrade to our free OTA TV channels.
ATSC 3.0 is designed so that ancillary bits can actually and easily be used to provide services that are relevant today, as well as those that will be in demand ten years hence.
A Next Gen TV station broadcasting in ATSC 3.0 on its own channel will now be able to seek modification of its license to include one or more 1.0 multicast streams aired on a ATSC 1.0 host or ...
Only six U.S. stations are broadcasting in ATSC 3.0 today, and while 60 markets are expected to deploy the standard this year, details are murky on specific channels or content support.
“ATSC 3.0 provides OTA broadcasters the same level of interactivity that you’re seeing with digital content on the web today,” said Anne Schelle, managing director of the Pearl TV broadcaster ...
“ATSC 3.0 is at the meeting point of broadcast and broadband, more tailored to viewers’ needs but much more challenging for the operators,” said Jean-Pierre Thomas, test and monitoring director for ...
DigiCAP Co., the South Korean company highly involved in NEXTGEN TV’s rollout, has announced new interoperability for DigiCaster, its virtualized ATSC 3.0 broadcast gateway. This technical ...
ATSC 3.0 is coming soon to Trinidad and Tobago, making it a standard in four nations on Earth. That said, other countries are studying the ATSC 3.0 system — albeit with no guarantee it will say yes.
This is a disappointing development. Only a small percentage of the best 4K TVs launched in the US in 2022 came with a built-in ATSC 3.0 tuner, a feature that lets them receive next-gen digital TV ...
NextGen TV To get ATSC 3.0 content, you'll need a new NextGen TV that has an ATSC 3.0 tuner. Spearheading adoption is Pearl TV, a business organization of nine of the largest U.S. broadcast station ...
But ATSC 3.0 comes with one big caveat as well: While the new standard will work with any antenna, it’s incompatible with the ATSC 1.0 tuners built into today’s TVs, converter boxes, and DVRs.
“ATSC appreciates the efforts of the U.S. Delegation to the ITU, led by the U.S. FCC, and we congratulate the ITU on its careful review and decision to include ATSC 3.0 as an official ITU standard.