Quality Clocks for Quality Transmission

A look at the importance of transport stream bit clocks to ATSC transmission

David G. S. Wood
Chief Design Engineer, Ensemble Designs, Inc.
Former Director of Engineering, WKOW-TV, Madison, Wisconsin

It's a New World

The shift from analog to digital television transmission in North America presents broadcasters with a host of technical challenges. This is, without question, the biggest change television broadcasting has ever experienced – more significant even than the advent of color. There have been changes at every step in the path. Some things that used to be important are no longer so. There are a lot of new things to learn.

This white paper looks specifically at the importance of clean, accurate, low-jitter clocks in the MPEG transport stream feeding an ATSC transmitting system. It presents a method to improve clock quality, thereby improving the overall performance of the transmission system.

Click here to download the full white paper.

Last edited by tisha (2010-06-16 10:49 AM)