What Is Integrated ATSC?
The National Television System Committee (NTSC) standard for analog television signal broadcasting, adopted by the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) in 1941, remained in place until 2009. In June of that year, the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards for digital television (DTV) broadcasting replaced the NTSC’s analog standards for all major television broadcasters in the United States. Because of the difference in the DTV signals, ATSC requires a tuner capable of decoding its signals at the user end of the transmission. In order to facilitate this process, television sets and television interfacing devices, such as digital video disc (DVD) players and digital video recorders (DVR), feature integrated ATSC. Any device incorporating integrated ATSC has an ATSC tuner built into its hardware.
