Jerry C Whitaker Technical Director Advanced Television Systems Committee
2.14 ATSC Video, Audio and PSIP Transmission*
2.14.1 Overview of the ATSC Digital Television System
The Digital Television (DTV) standard has ushered in a new era in television broadcasting. The impact of DTV is more significant than simply moving from an analogue system to a digital system. Rather, DTV permits a level of flexibility wholly unattainable with analogue broadcasting. An important element of this flexibility is the ability to expand system functions by building upon the technical foundations specified in ATSC standards such as the ATSC Digital Television Standard A/53)1 and the Digital Audio Compression (AC-3) Standard2
With NTSC, and its PAL and SECAM ...
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