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Advance Television Systems Committe (ATSC) tuner allows reception of over the air high definition digital television signals in North America and South Korea. The terms tuner and receiver are used loosely and is perhaps more appropriately called an ATSC Receiver with the tuner being part of the receiver. The tuner tunes in the radio signal sent by the TV station. FCC mandates all TVs 25 inch and larger must have ATSC tuners by July 1, 2006.[1] All TVs must have ATSC tuners a year later. The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) is the group that helped to develop the new digital television standard for the United States, also adopted by Canada, Mexico, and South Korea and being considered by other countries. ...
// TV and the FCC The FCC has notified US television broadcasters that the standard for transmitting TV over-the-air shall change from analog to digital. ...
A Sansui TU-X1 stereo FM tuner. ...
Replaces the NTSC standard with a higher resolution picture of 1920x1080 maximum, which is 6 times more resolution than NTSC. NTSC is the analog television system in use in Korea, Japan, United States, Canada and certain other places, mostly in the Americas (see map). ...
The receiver generates the audio and video signals needed for your television. The receiver does the following tasks: demodulation, error correction, transport stream demultiplexing, decompression, analog to digital conversion, and media reformatting to match what is optimal input for your TV. Examples of media reformatting include: interlace to progressive or vice versa, picture resolutions, aspect ratio conversions (16:9 to or from 4:3), frame rate conversion, audio/video synchronization. Zooming is an example of resolution change. Commonly used to convert a low resolution picture to a high resolution display. Demodulation is the act of removing the modulation from an analog signal. ...
In computer science and information theory, error correction consists of using methods to detect and/or correct errors in the transmission or storage of data by the use of some amount of redundant data and (in the case of transmission) the selective retransmission of incorrect segments of the data. ...
Streaming media are media that are consumed (read, heard, viewed) while it is being delivered. ...
In telecommunications, multiplexing (also muxing or MUXing) is the combining of two or more information channels onto a common transmission medium using hardware called a multiplexer or (MUX). ...
See also
The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) is the group that helped to develop the new digital television standard for the United States, also adopted by Canada, Mexico, and South Korea and being considered by other countries. ...
Digital broadcasting is the practice of using digital data rather than analog to transmit broadcasts over television or radio. ...
Digital television (DTV) uses digital modulation and compression to broadcast video, audio and data signals to television sets. ...
A digital tuner is a tuning device that allows a television or radio set to receive signals via airwaves, satellite, or cable and translates them into a signal the device can display. ...
In telecommunications, a virtual channel is a channel designation which differs from the actual radio channel or frequency which the signal travels. ...
Commercial ATSC Tuners/Receivers - Amazon Humax
- CNet review of Humax
- Amazon Samsung
- Zinwell module
Future Products - Tivo Series 3 with dual ATSC tuners
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