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Exhibit Hall Open

Grand Ballroom Salons 3-6

Tuesday 1:00 pm- 7:00 pm
Wednesday 10:00 am- 5:00 pm
Thursday 10:00 am- 2:00 pm

Broadcast Service Quality Monitoring Strategies

Richard Chernock (Triveni Digital, USA)

Today’s digital television broadcast systems are quite complex. There is a broad range of architectures, ranging from single station operations to large, centralized station groups. The ultimate goal of the broadcaster is to provide a quality viewing experience for the customer. Monitoring service quality throughout the broadcast system is therefore a necessary activity. The ATSC Recommended Practice on Bitstream Verification (A/78) has provided a methodology for filtering certain alarms. A/78 built upon and extended the concepts in the DVB measurement guidelines (ETSI TR 101 290). Significant emphasis was placed on practical considerations that might impact the use of MPEG monitoring equipment, including suitable categorization of error conditions to avoid operator fatigue and placing more emphasis on error conditions that would directly impact the viewer’s dissatisfaction. The resulting RP gives a common methodology that has been designed with real-world use considerations, which can significantly reduce the time, required to address system faults. New techniques for carriage auditing will be discussed in this presentation which will allow a broadcaster to understand what (if any) modifications have been made to their signal as it is incorporated into another system.

Thursday, Oct 29
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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