Five years ago this week… Synamedia decided it wanted a slice of NextGen TV action through a partnership with smaller encoding vendor Triveni Digital – an important supplier in what was a tortoise-paced race to ATSC 3.0. Seeing plenty of activity in retaining bandwidth for future ATSC 3.0 usage, Synamedia brought its compression technology to the table to free up the bandwidth required to launch new ATSC 3.0 services by repacking existing ATSC 1.0 signals. This was achieved by using a unified workflow platform across both services, based on the architectural support mechanism provided by the Digital Broadcast Chain from Triveni Digital, including Broadcast Gateway (launched earlier that year) and GuideBuilder XM. Today, Synamedia continues enabling broadcasters to optimize the bandwidth of ATSC 1.0 channels and to encode any ATSC…