The ITU study group on the broadcasting service will begin...
The ITU study group on the broadcasting service will begin new studies of “worldwide broadcasting roaming” and make changes to work in three other areas, unless objections arise before Jan. 27, the director of the Radiocommunication Bureau said in a…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
letter to administrations. Worldwide broadcasting roaming may spur regional, national and international harmonization of broadcasting, it said, and offers the possibility of intersystem interoperability for information services in disaster and emergency situations, navigation and safety. Demand for portable broadcast receivers is rising worldwide, it said. Those devices are increasingly connected to the Internet and are based on loaded software or firmware that can be updated, it said. The work aims to define the service requirements and features for worldwide broadcasting roaming, needed characteristics and performance, and the technical characteristics of broadcast receivers including elements of software defined radio (SDR) and its enhancements that may be useful, it said. SDR is also being studied in ITU-R, it said. Revisions to existing work include the inclusion of extremely high resolution or multi-view TV, and 3DTV, in studies on generic bit-rate reduction coding of digital video signals for production, contribution, primary and secondary distribution, emission and related applications, it said. Work on broadcasting of multimedia and data applications, and digital interfaces for production and post-production applications in broadcasting systems, will include 3DTV, it said.