An overview of the technological achievements of the Communications Research Centre (CRC) Canada in the area of TV Broadacsting.

1. From
Telidon
to 3D-TV
TV BROADCASTING
AT CRC

2. From
Telidon to
HDTV
FIRST PART:
THE PAST

3. CRC MANDATE
 Spect rum management is a key role of Indust ry Canada ( former
Depar tment of Communications) .
 TV Broadcasting occupied a large spect rum al locat ion in the VHF-UHF
band
 TV Broadcasting is a publ ic ser vice regulated by the Canadian
Radio-Television Commission (CRTC)
 CRC was the only organisation doing R&D in Broadcasting in Canada

4. BROADCASTING AND UNICASTING
•One to all
•On Schedule
•Dedicated channel
•Unlimited number of
users
• One to one
• On-demand
• Shared channel
• Limited number of
users

5. CRC CORE EXPERTISE
 Broadcast Channel Characterization and Modeling
 Transmission Technologies (Coding, Modulation, Error
Correction,MIMO, etc. )
 Coverage and Inter ference Estimation Tools (CRC-COVLAB)
 Laboratory and Field Testing of Systems
 Audio and Video Signal Processing and Compression
 Psychophysics of Human Audio and Visual Perception
 Audio and Video Objective/Subjective Qual ity Assessment
 3D TV and Immersive environment
 Multimedia Distribution Techniques: Internet, Wi -Fi, Wi-
Max, IPTV…
 SDR implementation of Broadcasting Standards
 Applications of Broadcasting techniques to other areas such
as Publ ic Safety, Intel ligent Transpor tation Systems,
Defence...

6. RESEARCH AREAS FACILITIES
 Transmission
technologies
Coverage estimation
tools
New coverage concepts
and broadcast network
topologies
Audio and video signal
processing/compression
Multimedia broadcasting
Digital broadcasting
 Test beds
Mobile test vans
Advanced Television
Evaluation Lab (ATEL)
Audio quality
assessment studio
Multimedia
broadcasting lab

7. CRC TV BROADCASTING FACILITIES
 DTV Transmission Test Bed
 Computer Simulat ions
 Test Vans for mobi le measurement
 ATSC Mobi le DTV Transmit ters (SFN)
 High Power Exper imental Transmi tter (Manot ick)
– Channel 67 (788 - 794 MHz )
– TX Output Power : 2.5 kW
– Average ERP: 30 kW
– Tower Height : 209 m
– EHAAT: 215 m

8. HISTORY OF TELEVISION IN CANADA
 1946-1953 American television received in border areas
 1952: CBC TV stations in Montréal and Toronto
 1961: CTV on the air
 1 9 8 2 : Wo r ld’s Fir s t HDTV Co n ference o r g anized in Ca n a d a
 2010: 738 ful l power NTSC TV transmitters and 1238 low
power ones
 2011: Digital TV transition in 31 mandatory markets
 2013: Real location of TV channels 52-69 to mobi le services
 2014: 700 MHZ l icences sold for $5.27 bi l lion

9. MY HISTORY:
ADMIRAL B&W TV IN QUEBEC CITY: 1955
SEARS COLOR TV:1970

10. DIRECT-TO-HOME SATELLITE
BROADCASTING: 1976
 New concept for communications satel l i tes; high power in the
satel l i te and smal l dishes on ear th
 This concept, cal led a Di rect Broadcast Satel l i te (DBS) , was
championed by John Chapman
 A means of del ivering high qual i ty TV transmissions to Canadians
outside urban centres
 1976: Communications Technology Satel l i te (CTS)/ Hermes
 May 1978: the world's first direct -to-home satel l i te television
broadcast carried a Stanley Cup hockey game from Canada to
the home of a Canadian diplomat in Lima, Peru.
 Hermes also demonstrated Satel l i te News Gathering (SNG)
 David Florida Laboratory was bui l t wi th faci l i ties to integrate and
test the satel l i te
 1987, an EMMY was awarded to the Depar tment of
Communications and NASA recognizing thei r joint role in
developing the Ku band satel l i te technology

11. PROJECT ELIE (MANITOBA): 1981
 First rural fiber optic network
 350 people town.
 150 subscribers
 $10 mi l lions investment ( 50 % from the Canadian
government)
 Distribution of telephone , radio, television and data
(Telidon) over an optic fiber
 Switched star Network configuration
 Tel idon at 4.8 ki lobits/sec. ! ! !
 One analog TV channel (among a choice of 8! ! ! )
 CRC investigated Video Transmission, Bidirectional operation
and fiber spl icing techniques.
 First step toward Integrated Services Digital Network ( ISDN)
now cal led Internet

12. TELIDON (1979-1985)
 Enabl ing a TV sets to receive Data/Images by
telephone l ine
 Increased coverage by using Teletext
(Broadcast ing)
 Teletext was adding Tel idon data ( 40-50
ki lobi ts/sec. ) to the Broadcast TV signal
 Data was inser ted in the Ver t ical Blanking
Interval (VBI )
 Field tests were done across Canada to
determine coverage: Over the ai r and on Cable
 Test Pi lot on TV master t ransmi t ters in Toronto
and Mont réal
 TV set - top bui l t by Norpak now par t of Ross Video
 Tel idon-Teletext was the f i rst step toward the
digi tal isat ion of TV Broadcast ing in Canada
 Provided cr i t ical informat ion on TV channel
characterist ics

13. TELIDON TERMINAL (1979)
HERB BOWN, BOB WARBURTON, BIL L SAWCHUK,
DOUG O'BRIEN AND JOHN STOREY

14. NTSC GHOST CANCELLATION
 Using Digital Filter to cancel ‘ghosts’ in Analog T V signal
 Testing of Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter to remove
ghosts
 Creation of Multipath simulators combinations for testing
 Coordination of evaluation of Ghost Cancellation
Reference (GCR) Signal for the ATSC
 Philips Laboratories (Winner)
 RCA-Sarnoff
 BTA-NECX
 AT&T-Zenith
 Samsung
 Standard in the USA-Canada

15. JAPANESE HI-VISION MUSE (1980-1995)
 Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding (MUSE)
 Developed by NHK Laboratories (Japan) in the 1980
 Hi-Vision: HDTV distribution over satellite
 2-dimensional fi ltering, dot - interlacing, motion-vector
compensation and l ine-sequential color encoding with time
compression to ' fold' an original 20 MHz source Hi -Vision
signal into a bandwidth of 8.1 MHz.
 1125 l ines , 60 HZ, Digital Audio
 Terrestrial MUSE transmission used a bandwidth l imited FM
system
 Narrow Muse (6 MHz) was proposed for Nor th America
Terrestrial transmission and was evaluated at CRC-ATEL

16. DIRECTOR GENERAL BROADCAST
TECHNOLOGIES (DGBT) CIRCA 1986

17. HYBRID (ANALOG-DIGITAL)
HDTV BROADCASTING- 1990
 Mul tiplex Analog Component (MAC) (Europe)
 MAC transmi ts luminance and chrominance
data separately in time rather than separately
in frequency (as other analog television
formats do, such as composi te video).
 Audio was transmi tted digi tal ly rather than as
an FM subcarrier.
 MAC standard included a standard scrambl ing
system
 Hi-Vision MUSE (Japan)
 Required more bandwidth (12-16-24-32 MHz)
 Limi ted to satel l i te distribution
 Requi red two channels for terrestrial
transmission
 CRC moni tored developments and tested MAC
prototype

18. SIMULATED MAC SIGNAL.
Digital data (Audio), chrominance and luminance

19. VIDEO EQUIPMENT-1991
Digital Video Sequence Recorder: VTE
SONY HD Tape Recorder & Monitor
Format Converter
HD Rear Projector: Hitachi

20. VIDEO COMPRESSION
HDTV pictures required in the order of 100
mbps
Compression make it fit into a video channel
MPEG-2 requires around 20 mbps
CRC investigated various compression
schemes
CRC contributed to MPEG developments
CRC was a founding member of the Video
Quality Evaluation Group (VQEG)
CRC made contributions to the ITU on video
processing and video quality evaluation

21. HDT V ’87 DEMONSTRATIONS IN CANADA
 Demonstrations of HDTV equipment from Europe-Japan
 Technical conference in Ottawa: Advanced Television Col loquium
 Satel l i te l inks from Japan to Nor th America: HD-MUSE
 Publ ic demonstrations in a Shopping Centre in Ottawa-Hul l
 Simi lar demonstrations in Toronto, Washington, New-York and
Los Angeles
 Publ ic Subjective Tests at the Government of Canada Conference
Centre
 F i r s t HDT V p ro d uc t i o n i n Can ad a ‘ ’Ove r t h e Rai n b ow’ ’ was s h own
 Survey showed that people would l ike HDTV but a reasonable
price
 1988 cost of HDTV sets: $10,000

22. HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION (HDTV): 1987
 USA concerns about Japanese HDTV Systems: Camera,
Recorders, transmi tters, receivers (Sony, Hi tachi , Toshiba,
Mat s us h i t a…)
 USA wish to protect i ts microelectronics and consumers
electronic industry: RCA (now Thomson), Zeni th( now LG)
 Create a process to bui l t an American TV broadcast system
 Advisory Committee on Advanced Television System (USA)
 Advanced Television System Committee (USA)
 Advanced Television Test Centre (USA)
 Cable Labs (USA)
 Advanced Television Evaluation Laboratory (CRC-ATEL) Canada
 In Canada
 Advanced Broadcasting Systems of Canada (ABSOC)
 Joint Technical Committee on Advanced Broadcasting (JT-CAB)

23. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE USA
 Initial Specification: Analogue and NTSC Compatible HDTV
System
 23 proposals received by ACATS (1988)
 Woo Paik from General Instrument (GI ) put together digital
standard TV satell ite encoders (VideoCypher) to create the
first HDTV digital signal
 New specification: Digital non-compatible HDTV system with
a transition period
 5 Proposals ($200K Testing fee) 1990:
 Sarnoff-Thompson-Philips (Analog then Digital version)
 Zenith-AT&T
 GI
 MIT
 NHK Narrow-Muse (Analog)

24. HDTV TESTING (1991-93)
 ATTC made objective tests and prepared tapes for subjective
video tests
 CRC-ATEL carried out the subjective tests
 ATEL Compare source wi th transmi tted pictures
 Mul tiple video formats including Progressive and interlaced
Scanning: Format Conver ter
 Rear-Projection Display needed to swi tch between HDTV formats
 Universi ty students hi red as viewers
 Spe c i al Pan e l ’s Co n c l us i o n mo s t l y bas e d o n ATE L s ubj e c t i ve te s t s
resul ts:
 Digital systems much better than analog: NHK withdraw
 No clear winner among Digital systems
 ACATS recommend new tests on improved systems

25. ADVANCED TELEVISION EVALUATION
LABORATORY (ATEL)
Fig 2. Viewing Room of ATEL. The lighting
level and colour of the back-lit viewing wall
meets the requirements of ITU-R
Recommendation 500. Viewers are seated at a
distance as is appropriate for HDTV or
Standard TV.
Fig 3. Control and Switching Room Equipment
to display images in the ATEL Viewing Room

26. AVERAGE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN QUALIT Y JUDGMENTS FOR
THE 1125-LINE STUDIO QUALIT Y REFERENCE AND FOR EACH
OF THE PROPOSED AT V SYSTEMS.

27. SYSTEM-SPECIFIC PLANNING FACTORS
(D/U IN DB)
CARRIER-TO-NOISE N-MUSE DigiCipher DSC-HDTV AD-HDTV CCDC
+38 +16.0 +16.0 +18.4 +15.4
CO-CHANNEL N-MUSE DigiCipher DSC-HDTV AD-HDTV CCDC
ATV-into-NTSC +16.8 +35 +35 +34 +36
NTSC-into-ATV +21 +7.6 +3.5 +0.50 +8.1
ATV-into-ATV +31 +16.4 +18.2 +19.1 +16.6
ADJACENT-CHANNEL N-MUSE DigiCipher DSC-HDTV AD-HDTV CCDC
Lower ATV-into-NTSC –31 –13.5 –17.2 –16.0 –17.8
Upper ATV-into-NTSC –12.0 –21 –7.5 –8.9 –17.0
Lower NTSC-into-ATV +28 –30 –43 –38 –37
Upper NTSC-into-ATV –11.8 –24 –42 –36 –37
Lower ATV-into-ATV –15.5 –23 –35 –33 –32
Upper ATV-into-ATV +16.6 –23 –36 –16.8 –32

28. HDTV GRAND ALLIANCE 1993
 Donald Rumsfield (General Instrument) propose a Grand
Al l iance:
RCA-Sarnof -Thomson, GI , MIT, Phi l ips, Zenith & AT&T
 Encoder: GI and AT&T
 Transpor t System (Multiplex) RCA-Sarnof f Labs. (enable
single HDTV or multiple Standard TV programs in single 6
MHz channel)
 Decoder: Phi l ips
 Audio: Dolby AC-3
 Modulation: Zenith 8-VSB
 Grand Al l iance system tested by ATTC and ATEL
 A 53 ATSC Standard adopted in 1995 by the USA
 Adopted by Canada in 1997

29. LABOR DIVISION OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE

30. 2009 EMMY AWARD:
STANDARDIZATION OF THE ATSC DIGITAL SYSTEM:
-Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service (ACATS)
-Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC)
-Advanced Television Test Center (ATTC)
-CRC Advanced Television Evaluation Laboratory (ATEL)

31. COFDM 6
 Coded Or thogonal Frequency Division Mul tiplexing (Mul ticarriers)
 European al ternative to single carrier: Zeni th 8-VSB and GI 32-
QAM
 Flexible Guard space used against Mul tipath
 Enable Single Frequency Network and Mobi le Reception
 Consor tium Canada-USA-Brazi l to adapt COFDM to 6 Mhz
channels
 COFDM-6 Modem bui l t by Sintef -Delab (Norway)
 6 MHz Transmission parameters set by CRC
 Laboratory and field tests done by CRC
 ACATS-Exper t Group did not see the superiori ty of COFDM in the
Nor th American context
 Grand Al l iance worked on improving 8-VSB Channel equal ization.

32. INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL BROADCASTING
SYSTEMS
 ATSC: USA-Canada-Mexico-Korea
 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) : Europe-Australia-New
Zealand-Singapore
 Integrated System for Digital Broadcasting : Japan
 Digital Mobi le Broadcasting-T: China
 International System for DTV: Brazi l
 Some CRC involvement with al l

33. DTV AROUND THE WORLD

34. HDTV FIELD TEST IN CANADA
Experimental HDTV Station: 1999 (Manotick)
 Industry Canada
CDTV
 Larcan
CRC
Experimental Single Frequency Network and
On-Channel Repeater
HDTV Receivers testing
Confirm channel parameters
Measure evolution of channel equaliser range

35. TV TRANSMISSION TESTING FACILITIES
Fig 4. Equipment at the Transmission Laboratory to
simulate transmission environments for testing and
comparing robustness to transmission impairments of
different transmission and modulation technologies
Fig 5. Mobile Transmission
Laboratory for television
transmission and coverage tests
(Picture shows tests being
carried out at Parliament Hill in
Ottawa)

36. HDTV CHANNEL ALLOCATION
DTV Chanel parameters, transmission
mask…provided by CRC
 738 Canadian full-power television transmitters
1238 low-power transmitters
First transition allotment plan in 1998
Second transition allotment plan in 1999
Final Transitional Allotment Plan in May 2005
Post-Transition Allotment plan in December
2008
First Canadian station (CITY-TV) : January 2003

37.  Transition coordinated by the Canadian Digital Television
(CDTV)
 Broadcasters: Astral, Bell, CHUM, Global, Telesat, CT V, Corus, Omni…
 Consumers and Professional Equipment suppliers: LG, Sharp, Sony,
R&S, Larcan
 Industry and Government Organisations: CRTC, CRC, CAB, IC,
Heritage…
 Industry Canada produced a Transition DTV al lotment plan
and a DTV Post Transition Al lotment plan
 End of NTSC (Analog) Transmission on August 31, 2011
 Digital TV in only 28 markets
 Other areas can remain analogue
 Channel 52-69 (698-806 MHz)cleared of TV broadcasting
signals
DIGITAL TV TRANSITION

38. HDTV STATIONS NOW AVAILABLE IN THE
OTTAWA AREA
14 Canadian stations
CBC (English) (4) 25
Global (6) 14
CBC (French) (9) 22
CHCH (11) 33
CTV 13
Omni1 (60) 27
TVO 24
TQ - Télé Québec 30
TQS (V) - CFGS 34
TVA - CHOT 40
CTS (32) 42
"A" Channel 43
Omni2 (14) 20
CityTV (65) 17
5 f rom Water town-Norwood
WNPI Norwood PBS 23
WCFE Mountain Lake PBS 38
WNYF FOX SD 18
WWNY CBS HD 7
WWTI ABC HD 21

39. 700 MHZ (TV BAND)
SPECTRUM AUCTIONS
Licence Winners # of Licences Won Final Price Total Population Covered
Feenix 1 Paired + 0 Unpaired $284,000 107,215
MTS 1 Paired + 0 Unpaired $8,772,072 1,206,968
Bragg 4 Paired + 0 Unpaired $20,298,000 3,101,204
TELUS 16 Paired + 14 Unpaired $1,142,953,484 33,475,915
Vidéotron 7 Paired + 0 Unpaired $233,328,000 28,030,489
Bell 17 Paired + 14 Unpaired $565,705,517 33,475,915
Sasktel 1 Paired + 0 Unpaired $7,556,929 1,030,039
Rogers 22 Paired + 0 Unpaired $3,291,738,000 33,368,700

40. Second
part:
Present
and
Future
TV BROADCASTING
AT CRC

41. NTSC DATA CASTING (1995-96)
 Adding Data to analog Color TV Broadcasting
 Data avai lable for various appl ications including electronic
newspapers, downloading computer sof tware and transmitting
supplemental information to TV commercials
 National Data Broadcasting Committee (NDBC) set up in the
USA to select a system
 2 candidates: Wavephore and Digideck
 CRC involves in Laboratory tests
 Transmission
 Subjective evaluation of impairments
 CRC as consultant to American-Japanese TV broadcasters
 Transmission performance
 Data Capacity potential

42. SPECTRUM EFFICIENCIES
 Local mul tipoint communication systems (LMCS) 1995-1997
 LMCS for the distribution of services, such as interactive video,
broadcasting, multimedia, voice, narrowband and broadband data
services to Canadian households and businesses;
 27.35–28.35 GHz
 CRC did coverage (5 Km radius) study and field tests for WIC-Connexus to
determine viability of possible point to multipoint services
 Coverage limited by humidity in foliage
 In 2014, IC expected the band to be used by fixed point-to-point services
to support commercial mobile services.
 Reduced Bandwidth Electronic News Gathering (ENG) 1999
 Performance degradation from 12 MHz ENG vs 17 MHz
 Broadcast Auxiliary Services Band reduced from 120 to 85 MHz: 2.025-
2.110 GHz
 Impairments tests to determine subjective video-audio threshold
 Degradation of a few dB for video (2-4.5 dB) and audio (5-6 dB)

43.  Whi te is the free spect rum in the TV bands that could be used by
other unl icenced ser vices using Data Base or cogni t ive radio.
 CRC investigated sensing techniques to ident i fy avai lable whi te
space
 Developed Test ing Methods for Whi te Space devices
 Cont r ibuted to development of indust ry standard
 Helped Canadian industry developing Whi te Space devices
(RedLine)
TV WHITE SPACE

44. RURAL AND REMOTE
BROADBAND ACCESS (RRBA) 2002-05
 R&D Program set by CRC in 2002, to suppor t
Industry Canada mandate to increase service in
Rural and Remote areas.
 One of the project proposed to used Broadcasting
technologies:
 Using ATSC to transmit 20 MBPS over 6 MHZ channels
 Using DVB-RCT as a return data channel
 CRC contributed to the development of the IEEE
802.22 Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN)
standard (2011)

45. RRBA BROADCAST CONCEPT

46. MOBILE VIDEO BROADCASTING
 Laboratory and Field tests of proposals for ATSC H/M
 Investigations on more ef ficient Audio/Video
compression technologies
 Wavelet-based codec (CRC-CWT and CRC-WVC)
 Frame rate conversion (CRC-FRC)
 Multi -frame motion estimation
 Bio- inspired audio coding algorithms
 Contributions to the Video Quality Exper ts Group (VQEG) for Multimedia appl ications.
 Subjective audio/video evaluations
 Investigation of ef fect of Tx impairments on video quality
 Investigations on Multimedia Broadcasting using DAB-DMB
technologies in the VHF-UHF Band
 Coverage prediction using COV-LAB
 Video over Wi -Fi and WiMax

47. MOBILE RECEPTION TESTS
Fig 6. Interior of the Mobile Transmission Laboratory for
television transmission and coverage tests
Fig 7. Installation of an 8-VSB
Gap-Filler transmitter

48. IMPROVEMENTS TO ATSC DTV COVERAGE :
PREDICTION OF SFN COVERAGE
48
Example of CRC-COVLAB prediction for
Mobile/Fixed
Fixed
Mobile

49. CRC COV-LAB
 Coverage prediction sof tware for Radio-TV Broadcast systems
 Using various propagation models including CRC Predict
 Developed to demonstrate Digital Radio Broadcasting (DRB)
coverage in L-Band
 Coverage improvements using Single Frequency Networks
 Coverage reduction of FM in Canada due to inter ference from
US FM- IBOC
 Mobi le DTV (ATSC-M/H) coverage prediction
 On-Line coverage prediction
 Sof tware sold around the world

50. SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORK

51. PUBLIC SAFETY
 In 2002, CRC did interference assessment to
enable spectrum sharing between NTSC-DTV
and Public Safety Wireless Operation on
Channels 60-69 (746-806 MHz):
Co-Channel interference (200-300 Km protection):
Clear channel 63 and 68 for Public Safety
Adjacent Channel interference: Co-location of Public
Safety Base Station if channel 62-64 in operation.
CRC developed video processing techniques to
improve images from surveillance recording in
low light conditions

52. CRC VIDEO LOUDNESS METER:
THIRD EMMY AWARD !
 Competition to find the best
Loudness Meter for TV broadcasting
 CRC responsible for testing
 CRC (Gilber t Soulodre) developed a simple reference to
validate tests
 CRC design found to be the best one !
 ITU adopted CRC design as international standard (2006)
 CRC Design is now in the public domain
 The CRC team won another in the EMMY AWARD in the
Technology and Engineering category, for their par t in
devising an international standard that will help to lower
the volume on television commercials along with Dolby
and the ITU.

53. 3D TELEVISION AT CRC
 Popularity of 3-D Cinema
 Future Upgrade to HDTV
 Availability of 3-D Display (Without glasses)
 Smal l overhead in term of data rate
 Better understanding of the 3-D production problems
 Cel l phones with 3D displays.
 CRC Investigation on compression technologies for 3-D
video
 CRCC Subjective evaluation of 3-D
 CRC Conversion of 2-D video programs to 3-D
 Automatic (CRC Sof tware) conversion of 2-D to 3-D Video
53

54. 3D TV ASSESSMENTS AT CRC (2003)
FILIPPO SPERANZA, TAALI MARTIN, RON RENAUD

55. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CRTC
Single Frequency Network: Better
coverage, low power
DTV Multiplex flexibility: More programs
or less transmitters
Mobile television broadcasting:
Reception in mobile phones
Enhanced ATSC VSB: Better transmission
Wireless return channel for interactive
broadcast channels

56. OTHER SUPPORT TO THE
GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
Contribution to the Heritage
Standing Committee
Information to Auditor General
Information to Customs
Brochure on Canadian industry
capability for Foreign Affair

57. OTHER SUPPORT TO INDUSTRY
Demonstration of HDTV Tele Health
Telesat Canada tests on
contribution links
DTV Receivers testing
Patents sold

58. PERFORMANCES OF DIFFERENT
GENERATIONS OF ATSC RECEIVERS

59. Our Canadian Partners

60. PARTNERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

61. Outreach Activities
• Contributions: CRTC , Heritage
committee, Telecommunication Policy
Review Panel( SFN, DMB), RABC,
ITU-R, Video Quality Expert Group
(VQEG), DTV-TG, DRRI, WorldDAB,
ATSC, World Broadcasting Union
(WBU), MPEG
• Publications: IEEE Transactions,
SPIE, JAES
• Conferences: WABE, CCBE, NAB,
IBC,AES, Picture Coding
Symposium, 3D TV, IEEE-BMBS,
IEEE Broadcast Symposium…

62. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
BROADCASTERS SHOW: 2010
Free booth at the Innovation Campus

63. FUTURE OF BROADCASTING TELEVISION
(FOBTV) 2011
 Representative from Europe(DVB-EBU), Asia (ETRI -NHK-NERC
and Americas (ATSC-NAB-PBS-CBC-CRC-SET-TVGlobo)
 Develop the technologies for the next generation TV broadcast
systems toward a world standard.

64. Long term impact of our work: An example
• CRC’s Predict licenced to Northwood.
• Former CRC employee, Bernard Breton moved to Northwood
• Northwood sold to Marconi, U.K.
• Marconi sold to Ericson, Sweden
• Ericson’s wireless network planning sold to CTS Holding, Paris, France
• Launch of the new company: Mentum
• Bernard Breton became COO and Head of Sales & Marketing
•Mentum acquired by InfoVista (France) in 2012
• 50-person R&D operation in Gatineau.

67. Distribution Place
6
New Video Distribution Techniques
Production Viewers
shifting
Distribution
Rights
Cable
TV
IPTV
Broadcast
transmitters
Satellite
WI-FI
Internet
Cellular

69. BUT, REMEMBER WE HAD SOME
PROBLEM WITH ANALOG NTSC TV TOO!

70. BROADCASTING 3.0

71. NEXT STEP: SUPER HD VIDEO
-16 time HDTV resolution
-32 megapixels pictures
-22.2 sound channels

72. NEXT STEP: IMMERSIVE VIDEO
 See demo at
http://immersivemedia.com/?page_id=494
 Could that be transmitted to the home ?

74. PAST AND FUTURE
Collective past
 Railway, Broadcasting,
Satellite…
 Require government
intervention ($)
Manage the spectrum
 Government R&D to
initiate developments
 National regulation
 Following USA
Individual future
 Internet, Cellular
Phone…
 Required market
intervention
 Sell the spectrum
 Government ‘R&D’ to
monitor developments
Worldwide regulation ?
Worldwide access

75. Prepare for Convergence
Everywhere !

76. WE CAME A LONG WAY:
WITH SOME HELP FROM CRC

77. FURTHER READING
 Shut Off: The Canadian Digital TV Transit ion
by by Gregory Taylor
 BROADCAST TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE NORTH AMERICAN DIGITAL
TELEVISION SYSTEM
by Metin Akgun, Ph.D.
http://www.fr iendsofcrc.ca/Projects/Digi talTV/
DigTV.html
 High Definit ion Television: The Creation,
Development and Implementat ion of HDTV
Technology Philip J. Cianci
 Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured
the Government into Inciting a Revolut ion in
Television by Joel Brinkley