A preliminary report on the phase-I ATSC field test results in Taiwan

Author

Tsai, J.-F. ; Lin, C.-C. ; Hang, H.-M. ; Tarng, J.-H. ; Yu, H.-C.

Author_Institution

AUSTeck Comput. Inc., Taiwan

fYear

2000

fDate

13-15 June 2000

Firstpage

138

Lastpage

139

Abstract

In May 1998, Taiwan formally adopted the ATSC digital television (DTV) as its local digital terrestrial broadcasting standard. In order to define the DTV service area and specify the transmission parameters, we like to know the characteristics of the DTV signal over the local irregular terrain, the impact of interference, and the relationship between the signal power and video quality. We measured the DTV signal and compared the DTV and the NTSC service availability. We selected 100 test sites in Taipei city and its vicinity including three types of environment: urban, suburban and rural areas. In general, the DTV system has a clear advantage over the NTSC system in reception quality.

Keywords

Digital television; Field strength measurement; Multipath channels; Television broadcasting; Television interference; Television reception; Television standards; DTV service area; DTV signal measurement; DTV system; NTSC service availability; NTSC system; Taipei city; Taiwan; digital television; digital terrestrial broadcasting standard; field strength measurement; interference; local irregular terrain; multipath interference; phase-I ATSC field test results; reception quality; rural area; signal power; suburban area; test sites; transmission parameters; urban area; video quality; Availability; Cities and towns; Digital TV; Digital video broadcasting; Prototypes; System testing; TV broadcasting; Transmitters; UHF measurements; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2000. ICCE. 2000 Digest of Technical Papers. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angles, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6301-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2000.854532

Filename

854532