‘Great Deal of Progress’ Reported in Picking Winning HDR System for ATSC 3.0

Technology Group 3, the body within ATSC that’s supervising the framing of ATSC 3.0, made “a great deal of progress” in meetings in New York this week on high dynamic range for the next-generation broadcast standard, ATSC President Mark Richer emailed us Thursday through a spokesman. “We now expect A/341 to go out to ballot for Proposed Standard sometime in December,” Richer said of the ATSC 3.0 video document, which has been stuck in candidate standard mode for months as various ATSC committees tried to hash out consensus on HDR. TG3 twice has delayed picking a winning HDR technology for ATSC 3.0. After the latest two-month delay in September (see 1609290074), the candidate standard period on A/341 is now due to expire Nov. 30.