Humber College awarded $3 million to support ATSC 3.0 research

TORONTO — Humber College in Toronto announced last week it will establish what it calls the first “ATSC 3.0 Living Lab” in Canada thanks to a total of $3 million in grants from the federally funded Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). ATSC 3.0 is the next-generation IP-based global television broadcast standard set to replace the current North American standard, ATSC 1.0, explains Humber College’s press release. (We first wrote about the ATSC 3.0 standard in February 2020.) With the help of $2 million from NSERC over five years and...