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The US digital television standard is called "ATSC". Officially, this stands for "Advanced Television Systems Committee". Unofficially, the "A" stands for "al
by duskwuff 7y ago
The US digital television standard is called "ATSC".
Officially, this stands for "Advanced Television Systems Committee".
Unofficially, the "A" stands for "always".
- joezydeco 7y agoIf you're an insomniac, I recommend David Brinkley's book "Defining Vision : How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television" It's an account of the incredibly messy process that got us the ATSC standard in the USA. A little dry but a little interesting. https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Vision-Broadcasters-Government-Revolution/dp/0156005972 https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Vision-Broadcasters-Governme... The upside is that the group took so long to define a standard that digital compression and broadcasting technologies matured enough so that HDTV in the US could be fully digital and not analog like the Japanese had pioneered and proposed as a world standard.