New technology group explores next-generation broadcasting

WASHINGTON - The Advanced Television Systems Committee Inc. (ATSC) has formed a new technology group to develop ATSC 3.0, a series of voluntary technical standards and recommended practices for the next-generation digital terrestrial television broadcast system.Because ATSC 3.0 is likely to be incompatible with current broadcast systems, it must provide improvements in performance, functionality and efficiency significant enough to warrant implementation of a non-backwards-compatible system, according to ATSC president Mark Richer."ATSC 3.0 is a crucial long-term project that paves the way for futuristic terrestrial television broadcasting technologies," Richer said in a statement. "As we look to the horizon, the ATSC...