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Today, in a filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® urged the FCC to initiate immediate action to assess spectrum usage and determine how additional spectrum can be allocated for wireless broadband and other uses.

CEA worked with...

The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC), a voluntary association of more than 800 broadcast stations, today announced it is "All Systems Go" for a new era of television service on mobile devices. With Thursday's adoption of a final mobile digital television (Mobile DTV) broadcast standard by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), U.S. broadcasters are poised to roll out an array of digital program services that will be available to consumers on devices ranging from in-car screens to portable DVD players and mobile phones.

OMVC today demonstrated the services enabled by the new standard during a Mobile DTV briefing for government officials and...

The Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc. has approved and published A/72 which details the methodology to utilize Advanced Video Coding (AVC) within an ATSC DTV transmission. AVC, which was developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group, is also known as H.264 and MPEG-4 Part 10. The A/72 Standard defines constraints with respect to AVC, compression format restraints, low delay and still picture modes, and bit stream specifications. In addition it specifies...

Canadian HD viewers are about to be able to watch premium new High-Definition programming associated with one of the most trusted brands in the world.

High Fidelity HDTV Inc, Canada's foremost HD broadcaster, and Smithsonian Networks of the USA, have signed an exclusive programming agreement under which programs from the US service Smithsonian Channel HD(TM) will be broadcast on Oasis HD, Equator HD and Treasure HD, three of the all-HD channels operated by High Fidelity in Canada.

Smithsonian Channel HD's programming is...

LG Electronics (LG) and Samsung Electronics (Samsung), which together lead the global digital TV market, announced today that they will propose their jointly developed technology as the North American technology standard for mobile DTV.

Samsung and LG held a signing ceremony at Seoul Plaza Hotel in Seoul, Korea, on May 14, 2008. Executives from the two companies attended the event, including Woo Paik, LG's President and CTO, and JongWoo Park, President of Samsung Digital Media Business.

At the ceremony, the two companies agreed to...

Paving the way for next-generation digital television (DTV) standards, the Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc. celebrated its 25th Anniversary at the 2008 ATSC Annual Meeting today.

The Honorable Richard E. Wiley, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and of the FCC's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service, was the keynote speaker at the event held at the Pentagon City Ritz-Carlton in Arlington, Va. Wiley, recognized as the "Father of HDTV," highlighted the...