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Nextgentv Host Station Manual Version 11 06/22/21 HOST STATION MANUAL On behalf of Pearl TV and the Phoenix Model Market Project for the Broadcast Television Industry NEXTGEN TV logo is an unregistered trademark of the Consumer Technology Association and is used by permission. © 2019 All Rights Reserved. GETTING STARTED Contents Getting Started ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 7 Background and Goals _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 8 Sharing Channels to Clear Spectrum ______________________________________________________________________________ 9 Two Step Process ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 9 Step One - Clearing Spectrum ___________________________________________________________________________________ 9 Step Two – Building the NextGen TV Services _______________________________________________________________ 14 Licensing __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20 Multichannel Video-Programming Distributors (MVPD) ______________________________________________________ 22 NextGen TV Market Viewer Notification Suggested Guidelines _______________________________________________ 26 Suggested Transition Rescanning Crawl Information ______________________________________________________ 26 Station Website Recommendations __________________________________________________________________________ 28 Suggested Copy for Station Websites ________________________________________________________________________ 28 Images For Digital Use ________________________________________________________________________________________ 29 Basic TV Service Promotion __________________________________________________________________________________ 30 Web Based Information _______________________________________________________________________________________ 30 Master Checklist __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 31 Agreements, Business and Licensing ________________________________________________________________________ 31 Technical Considerations _____________________________________________________________________________________ 32 Purchasing ATSC-1 Equipment __________________________________________________________________________________ 34 Purchasing ATSC-3 Equipment __________________________________________________________________________________ 35 Overall Transmission and Receiver Requirements _____________________________________________________________ 36 Transport (ROUTE/DASH, MMT) _____________________________________________________________________________ 36 Video Requirements ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 38 Audio Requirements ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 39 Closed Captioning Requirements _____________________________________________________________________________ 40 Packager Requirements _______________________________________________________________________________________ 40 Closed Captioning Requirements _____________________________________________________________________________ 40 Advanced Emergency Alerts __________________________________________________________________________________ 40 Copyright 2021 Pearl TV LLC. Version 11.0 Page | 2 GETTING STARTED Non-Real Time (NRT) File Delivery __________________________________________________________________________ 41 Security Requirements ________________________________________________________________________________________ 41 Advanced Emergency Alert (AEA) Requirements ___________________________________________________________ 43 Guide Requirements ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 43 Interactive Runtime ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 43 Stream Assignment Requirements ___________________________________________________________________________ 44 TransmIssion Requirements __________________________________________________________________________________ 44 Operations Section ______________________________________________________________________________________ 45 Recommended Initial Setup Parameters and the Service Profile _____________________________________________ 46 Background ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 46 The Recommended Profile ____________________________________________________________________________________ 48 Initial Setup Parameters ______________________________________________________________________________________ 49 More Advanced Parameters _____________________________________________________________________________________ 51 Additional Setups for Subsequent Years _____________________________________________________________________ 51 Advanced Setups _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 51 Training ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 53 Procedures ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 55 Monitoring of All Services _____________________________________________________________________________________ 55 Logging of Services ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 55 Legal ID and EAS Testsing _____________________________________________________________________________________ 55 Resumption or Loss of Service _______________________________________________________________________________ 55 Calling Trees and Communications _____________________________________________________________________________ 56 Outside Support __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 57 IP Addressing _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 58 PTP or NTP Clock _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 60 Watermarking ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 61 Content and Service Protection __________________________________________________________________________________ 62 Public Key Infrastructure or PKI _____________________________________________________________________________ 62 Overall Content and Service Protection System _____________________________________________________________ 63 Content Security or Digital Rights Management ____________________________________________________________ 64 Copyright 2021 Pearl TV LLC. Version 11.0 Page | 3 GETTING STARTED Service Protection _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 67 Broadcaster Application and Framework ______________________________________________________________________ 68 Broadcaster Application ______________________________________________________________________________________ 68 Common Application Framework ____________________________________________________________________________ 73 Test Application ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 76 Reference ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 78 A Short Tutorial ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 79 Introduction ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 79 HEVC - H.265 Encoding __________________________________________________________________________________________ 80 High Dynamic Range (HDR) __________________________________________________________________________________ 83 Wide Color Gamut (WCG) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 88 High Frame Rate (HFR) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 91 AC-4 - Audio Encoding ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 95 Dialog Enhancement __________________________________________________________________________________________ 96 Data Rate Efficiency ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 97 A/V Sync and Frame Alignment ______________________________________________________________________________ 97 Dynamic Range Control _______________________________________________________________________________________ 98 Extensible Metadata Delivery Format Support ______________________________________________________________ 98 Loudness Control ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 99 Intelligent Loudness Management ___________________________________________________________________________ 99 Target Devices _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 99 Alternative Metadata __________________________________________________________________________________________ 99 Advanced Single-Stream and Multi-Stream (Hybrid) Presentations ______________________________________
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