Enhanced VSB system

Author

Bretl, Wayne E. ; Touzni, Azzedine

Author_Institution

Zenith Electron. Corp., Lincolnshire, IL, USA

Volume

48

Issue

3

fYear

2002

fDate

8/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

533

Lastpage

538

Abstract

Enhancements to the existing ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) VSB (vestigial sideband) digital television standard (A/53) were developed independently at the authors´ companies. Each company´s private tests showed its system to be backward compatible with existing ATSC receivers and to offer improvements in flexibility and signal robustness to meet broadcasters´ needs. When both systems were submitted to the ATSC committee on enhancements, the two companies found their proposals to be very complementary, resulting in the formation of a joint proposal for enhancement of the VSB digital TV broadcasting system. The combined proposal is described along with its technical benefits.

Keywords

Reed-Solomon codes; digital television; television broadcasting; television receivers; television standards; trellis codes; ATSC receivers; Advanced Television Systems Committee; Reed-Solomon compatibility; Reed-Solomon encoder; VSB digital TV broadcasting system; VSB digital television standard; enhanced VSB system; multiple coding rates; signal robustness; trellis coding; vestigial sideband; Decoding; Digital TV; Hardware; Noise robustness; Proposals; Reed-Solomon codes; Standards development; System testing; TV broadcasting; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2002.1037038

Filename

1037038