ATSC’s 25th Birthday
May 10, 2008 by Zach Flauaus
Filed under Electronics
Get out the streamers, party favors, and… Wait, it’s just a standard? Ehh… We can still party. The Advanced Television Systems Committee (you may know them as “ATSC”) has turned 25 years old. ATSC, for those of you who may not know, is the successor to NTSC. And to backtrack more, NTSC is the standard upon which analog TV signals are broadcasted in. So thus, ATSC signals are digital and will be the only signals broadcasted in major markets in February 2009.
The extremely lengthy press release goes into who was at the ATSC meeting along with the future of it. Apparently in the future there will be three ATSC divisions (just what we need…) from fixed transmissions to getting traffic data in your car. Here’s to another 25 years of ATSC, because on behalf of America, I say this: We don’t want to switch again.
Via [EngadgetHD]
