VSB transmission system

Author

Luplow, Wayne C.

Author_Institution

Zenith Electron. Corp., Glenview, IL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

4-7 Oct 1998

Abstract

Summary form only given. The ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) digital television system (DTV) will soon be a reality in the United States. While the FCC has not specified the resolution of the transmitted video, it is expected that most broadcasters will move rapidly towards the flagship application of DTV, namely high definition television (HDTV). The introduction of a DTV/HDTV system must meet the difficult challenge of coexisting with currently operating analog television services. Based on the nature of today´s analog television transmission, only every other VHF channel and every sixth UHF channel are assigned as full power services in any given city. There are about 1600 full power stations in the USA, plus about 6000 full power translator/repeaters (mostly in the sparsely populated western US). The digital vestigial sideband (VSB) system was chosen, after extensive competitive testing, to be the transmission (or modulation) technology for the ATSC system. The 8-level PAM (8-VSB) system meets all the requirements

Keywords

digital television; high definition television; pulse amplitude modulation; 19.39 Mbit/s; 38.7 Mbit/s; 6 MHz; 8-VSB; 8-level PAM; ATSC; Advanced Television Systems Committee; DTV; HDTV; UHF channel; United States; VHF channel; VSB transmission system; digital television system; digital vestigial sideband; high definition television; modulation; resolution; television transmission; Cities and towns; Digital TV; Digital video broadcasting; FCC; HDTV; High definition video; Power generation; Repeaters; System testing; TV broadcasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 1998. ICIP 98. Proceedings. 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8821-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.1998.723392

Filename

723392