Samsung announced yesterday that its 4K UHD video broadcasting technology, which it developed in collaboration with One Media, will now be used as a method for digital broadcasting in North America. The South Korean consumer electronics giant believes that it has taken one step forward in its efforts to dominate the UHD broadcasting technology.
Samsung's physical layer bootstrapping protocol for UHD broadcasting technology has been adopted as an ATSC 3.0 Candidate Standard, and it will be used as a method to transmit signals to digital television sets in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Samsung's bootstrap standard includes ATSC 3.0 physical layer, transport layer, and things like codecs that are going to be approved by the end of this year. After putting together all of these, final standards will be created by early next year.
