SEOUL, South Korea—DigiCAP Co. announced new interoperability for DigiCaster DigiCAP’s virtualized ATSC 3.0 broadcast gateway. The improvements enable ATSC 3.0 signals to be integrated with AWS Elemental Media Services and AWS Elemental Live. 

The upgrades will help accelerate ATSC 3.0 station deployments and open up OTT program distribution opportunities, the company said. 

The new interoperability enables broadcasters to build a single cloud instance using the DigiCaster ATSC 3.0 broadcast gateway coupled with virtual encoder and transport services from AWS Elemental Media Services and AWS Elemental Live. 

This combination can be used to create a cloud based STL (studio to transmitter link) that could be deployed using a single instance on AWS Marketplace. This would make it possible to put an entire ATSC 3.0 station STL on the air using a single software download and typing in the IP address for the station’s transmitter exciter input, greatly simplifying and speeding up ATSC 3.0 station launches. 

In terms of OTT distribution, the ATSC 3.0 roadmap includes interactive and personalized distribution capabilities which are a natural fit for a streaming environment. The new interoperability that allows ATSC 3.0 signals to enter a virtualized cloud workspace, moves stations towards that capability and opens up opportunities for innovation in the OTT space. 

Joonyoung Park, vice president and fellow at DigiCAP noted that “we are very excited to provide broadcasters the opportunity to use a single cloud instance to accelerate the ATSC 3.0 adoption process and open the doors for ATSC 3.0 OTT innovation.”  

The DigiCaster post on AWS Marketplace is available here. 

QUINCY, Ill.—Elenos Group’s Broadcast Electronics subsidiary has big plans for ATSC 3.0 in small- and medium-sized markets.

Elenos Group has entered into an agreement with DigiCAP to make available the company’s all-in-one broadcast gateway, which performs eight virtualized ATSC 3.0 headend functions on a commercial off-the-shelf server, through Broadcast Electronics.

Newly appointed Broadcast Electronics COO Perry Priestly views this market segment as being underserved and aims to help these stations implement 3.0 inexpensively using the DigiCAP gateway, the company said.

The virtualized services available via the gateway can be turned on as needed, which Priestly sees as a way for smaller stations to launch 3.0 at a low cost and activate other services in the future as Next Gen TV business models evolve and new revenue opportunities emerge, the company said.

Broadcast Electronics transmitter-translators-exciter tech offers the Pro Television supercomputer, also known as PTV inside, which makes converting ATSC 1.0 operations to 3.0 quick and easy. No hardware changes are required, the company said.

The feature will make it easy for stations to test 3.0 and more quickly initiate Next Gen TV service by offering stations a way to start the FCC’s five-year countdown clock to discontinuing 1.0 service.

More information is available on the Broadcast Electronics website.

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