Pearl TV told a U.S. Court of Appeals this week that it has “deep concern” over the future availability of TV sets and devices that support the ATSC 3.0 standard because of LG’s exit from the 3.0 market in the U.S. last year after it lost a court case against Constellation Designs over a patent dispute.
In an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals in the case of “Constellation Designs, LLC v. LG Electronics Inc.,” Pearl, a consortium of broadcasters, manufacturers and associations promoting ATSC 3.0 (aka “NextGen TV”) told the court that it feared that “other major TV manufacturers will follow LG and pull their products off the market, if the decision on damages from the trial court is allowed to stand.”
