ATSC standards

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Map of countries by standard of digital terrestrial television used. Countries that use ATSC are shown in orange.

Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards are American standards for digital television over terrestrial, satellite, and cable forms. It is mainly used in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and South Korea. They replaced the old NTSC standard for analog television for digital terrestrial television.[1][2][3][4][5] Japan made their own standards, ISDB.

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