ATSC is the new multi-national committee on television standards so pay attention. Sent to me in an email but here's the direct link.

ATSC Adopts Standard for Advanced Video Coding - 9/22/2008 7:16:48 AM (http://naob-advocacy.informz.net/naob-advocacy/archives/archive_150694.html)

Essentially, they recognize that MPEG-2 is being supplanted by newer encoding/decoding methods and are adding it to their standards.

regards,

-gb-

Interesting, thanks for the tip Greg.