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DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 300 members, and published by an Joined Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) and European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

The standards can be obtained for free at the ETSI website after registration.

How the several DVB sub-standards interact is described in the DVB Cookbook (DVB-Cook).

1 Transmission

The core standards of DVB are DVB-S ( satellite television and satellite internet), DVB-C ( cable) and DVB-T ( terrestrial), which are all based upon MPEG-2 (DVB-MPEG) for audio and video coding as well as the transport stream and are capable of high definition television (HDTV) as well. Upcoming is DVB-H for mobile reception in cellular phone frequency bands.

These flavors differ mainly in the modulations used, which is a required due to different bands. The high frequency DVB-S uses QPSK, lower hertz DVB-C uses QAM (64-QAM in general) and DVB-T (in VHF and/or UHF band) uses COFDM.

DVB-S and DVB-C were ratified in 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an. DVB-T was ratified in early 19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t. The first commercial DVB-T broadcasts were performed by the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly's Digital Terrestrial Group (DTG) in late 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting and in 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U Berlin, Germany was the first area to completely stop broadcasting analog TV signals. Italy will completely convert its terrestrial analog broadcasts to DVB-T by 2006.

2 Interaction

Besides audio and video transmission, DVB also defines data connections (DVB-DATA) with return channels DVB-RC* for several media ( DECT, GSM, PSTN/ ISDN etc.) and protocolos (DVB-IPI: Internet Protocol, DVB-NPI: network protocol independent). This is for example used for interactive interfaces like Multimedia Home Platform (DVB-MHP) and Electronic Program Guide s (EPG).

Legacy technologies like teletext (DVB-TXT) and VBI (DVB-VBI) are also supported to ease conversion. However for many applications more advanced alternatives like DVB-SUB for sub-titling are available. The features are described with Service Information (DVB-SI).





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