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  • abbreviation Advanced Television Systems Committee

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Examples

  • Ironically, broadcasters played the deciding role in ATSC’s choice.

    HDTV Becomes De Rigueur - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • HDTV system called ATSC, which the rest of the world refused to adopt, partly because it was widely recognized to be a primitive, broadcast lobbyist driven standard.

    J.H. Snider: The Broadcast Industry's Free TV Scam Redux J.H. Snider 2011

  • TV broadcasters are working on a new standard (called ATSC-M/H) that will allow cell phones (and other mobile devices) to receive and display over-the-air digital TV signals, which nearly all stations will be using by February 2009 as part of the transition to DTV.

    Free TV—on your cell phone? 2008

  • U.S. TV broadcasters are working on a new standard (called ATSC-M/H) that will allow cell phones (and other mobile devices) to receive and display over-the-air digital TV signals, which nearly all stations will be using by February 2009 as part of the transition to DTV.

    Free TV—on your cell phone? 2008

  • To demonstrate the effectiveness of multi-transmitter networks for Mobile DTV, the station has worked with Axcera to convert the system to support the new ATSC Mobile DTV standard, also referred to as ATSC M/H (Mobile/Handheld).

    B&C - Advertising News 2010

  • (Bis) announced the ban on the ADE651, marketed by a UK-based company called ATSC, after an investigation for BBC2's Newsnight challenged the scientific basis for the technology it uses.

    icLiverpool 2010

  • Lord Mandelson's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Bis) announced the ban on the ADE651, marketed by a UK-based company called ATSC, after an investigation for BBC2's Newsnight challenged the scientific basis for the technology it uses.

    icNewcastle 2010

  • (Bis) announced the ban on the ADE651, marketed by a UK-based company called ATSC, after an investigation for BBC2's Newsnight challenged the scientific basis for the technology it uses.

    icLiverpool 2010

  • Iraqi Interior Ministry officials initially defended their purchase of the ADE 651 from a company called ATSC (UK) Ltd when confronted with US studies that found the wands performed no better than chance.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Iraqi Interior Ministry officials initially defended their purchase of the ADE 651 from a company called ATSC (UK) Ltd when confronted with US studies that found the wands performed no better than chance.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

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