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NAB recently updated its list of Transmitter ID (TxID) codes for television stations. NAB maintains a list of assigned TxID codes for all television stations at TxID.nabpilot.org. For a memory jog on what a TxID [...]

A previous blog in this series noted that ATSC was engaged in the process of adapting the ATSC-1 DTV standard documentation so that it was compliant with MPEG-4 (also known as AVC) implementations that are known to work in the marketplace with legacy receivers. That work was completed with the approval of A/53 Part3: 2013 Amendment No. 1 “AVC Signal Transport” on February 15, 2023.

Part 1 and Part 2 of this three-part series showed how channel sharing can be used to make RF channels available for ATSC 3.0 services and how MPEG-4 compression can assist in that goal. [...]

In Part 1 of this series, the spectrum efficiency and advantages of using MPEG-4 compression for DTV transmission were explored in the context of the transition to ATSC 3.0 broadcasting. Using the guidelines from [...]

Television broadcast service based on ATSC 3.0 technology, or NEXTGEN TV, is better than ATSC-1 in virtually all respects. But the ATSC 3.0 transition is challenging because, unlike the original DTV transition, broadcasters do [...]

Those seeking the latest update on the progress of NEXTGEN TV broadcasting (also known as ATSC 3.0) need look no further than the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System website, where comments were filed last [...]

On April 20, 2022, NAB PILOT launched TXID.NABPILOT.org, a webpage for assigning Transmitter Identification codes (TxIDs) for ATSC 3.0 transmitters. Here are some questions and answers concerning all things TxID. What is a TxID? The [...]

NAB’s Technology department had originally planned to show an ATSC 3.0 demonstration of scalable HEVC (SHVC) coding using a hybrid broadcast and broadband network at the 2020 NAB Show. Scalability and hybrid broadcast/broadband system integration [...]

NAB presented two Best Paper Awards at the 2022 NAB Show for papers judged to have significant merit in the 2022 Proceedings of the Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology Conference. You can buy either or [...]

Two special sessions at NAB Show will be of particular interest to broadcast engineers and media technology enthusiasts: the Broadcast Engineering and IT (BEIT) Conference Opening Session and the keynote and awards session “Hollywood's ‘Binge Times’ OTT Battle and the NAB Engineering Achievement Awards.”