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The '''ATSC''' (short for ''Advanced Television Systems Committee'') is the Terrestrial Transmission Standard used in the U.S. and some parts of southern/central America. Transmits MPEG2 Streams but uses a slightly different modulation scheme called [[8VSB]] instead of [[COFDM]] like [[DVB-T]].
'''ATSC''' (short for ''Advanced Television Systems Committee'') is a large consortium (constituted by ~140 members from the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite, and semiconductor industries) that develops a set of standards related to [[Digital TV]].


In casual conversation or less precise descriptions, the term "ATSC" is used to refer to "ATSC Digital Television (DTV) Standard (A/53)", which is the standard for terrestrial based [[OTA|over-the-air (OTA)]] broadcasts, and which has been adopted by the U.S.A, Canada, Mexico, South Korea and perhaps some other countries.
It has been kind of a holy war whether DVB-T or ATSC is technically more advanced. For an analysis see e.g. http://www.atsc.org/news_information/papers/1999_vsb_cofdm_comparison/ICCE99paper.PDF. In 2001, a technical report (http://web-star.com/hdtv/mstvtestsum.html) compiled by the COFDM Technical Group concluded that [[COFDM]] did not offer any significant advantages over [[8VSB]].

Similar to other [[DTV]] systems, ATSC calls for the transmission of a [[MPEG-2 Transport Stream]], but uses the [[8VSB]]
[[Modulation Scheme|modulation scheme]], instead of [[COFDM]] like the competing [[DVB-T]] counterpart. During the [[DTV]] trial stages, and as well as for near close to a decade following the 1996 U.S selection of the ATSC DTV Standard for use in terrestrial transmissions, a kind of holy war has been waged in some circles as to whether which of [[DVB-T]] or ATSC is the technically more advanced system. For one such analysis of these two systems, see [http://www.atsc.org/news_information/papers/1999_vsb_cofdm_comparison/ICCE99paper.PDF here]. In 2001, [http://web-star.com/hdtv/mstvtestsum.html a report compiled by the COFDM Technical Group] concluded that [[COFDM]] did not offer any significant advantages over [[8VSB]]. Much of this debate has subsided over the course of time.


== Hardware ==
== Hardware ==
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==External Links==
==External Links==
* [http://www.atsc.org/ ATSC website]
* [[Wikipedia:ATSC|ATSC on Wikipedia]]
* [[Wikipedia:ATSC|Wikipedia's ATSC article]]
* http://www.atsc.org/
* http://www.coolstf.com/mpeg/index.html ... Provides a technical introduction to U.S. Digital TV systems
* [http://www.coolstf.com/mpeg/index.html Coolstf website], which provides, amongst other things, a technical introduction to U.S. Digital TV systems


[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Technology]]

Revision as of 02:05, 16 January 2008

ATSC (short for Advanced Television Systems Committee) is a large consortium (constituted by ~140 members from the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite, and semiconductor industries) that develops a set of standards related to Digital TV.

In casual conversation or less precise descriptions, the term "ATSC" is used to refer to "ATSC Digital Television (DTV) Standard (A/53)", which is the standard for terrestrial based over-the-air (OTA) broadcasts, and which has been adopted by the U.S.A, Canada, Mexico, South Korea and perhaps some other countries.

Similar to other DTV systems, ATSC calls for the transmission of a MPEG-2 Transport Stream, but uses the 8VSB modulation scheme, instead of COFDM like the competing DVB-T counterpart. During the DTV trial stages, and as well as for near close to a decade following the 1996 U.S selection of the ATSC DTV Standard for use in terrestrial transmissions, a kind of holy war has been waged in some circles as to whether which of DVB-T or ATSC is the technically more advanced system. For one such analysis of these two systems, see here. In 2001, a report compiled by the COFDM Technical Group concluded that COFDM did not offer any significant advantages over 8VSB. Much of this debate has subsided over the course of time.

Hardware

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