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== Links ==
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''Links:''

* [[DVB Standard]]s
* [[DVB Standard]]s

* [http://www.dvb.org/ The DVB Consortium]
* [http://www.dvb.org/ The DVB Consortium]

* [http://www.atsc.org/ The Advanced Television Systems Committee, specifies the ATSC standard]
* [http://www.atsc.org/ The Advanced Television Systems Committee, specifies the ATSC standard]
*[[Wikipedia:DTV|Digital Television Article on Wikipedia, includes some nice historical Facts]]


[[Category:Technology]]
*[[Wikipedia:DTV|Digital Television Article on Wikipedia, includes some nice historical Facts]]

Revision as of 22:25, 2 April 2005

Digital TV or Digital Video Broadcasting, is a set of standards for the transmission of digital video and audio.

DVB consists of a data packets, which carries a MPEG2 coded video/audio and EPG combined with other payload encapsulated in MPEG2 Transport Streams. Depending on the transmission path there a different kinds of Digital TV, which are using different Modulation Schemes, frequencies, transmission parameters and are optimized for different transmission networks and target devices.

DVB-S (Digital Video Broadcasting over Satellite)

DVB-C (Digital Video Broadcasting over Cable Networks)

DVB-T (Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcasting)

DVB-H (a new standard for mobile devices, e.g. mobile phones. Sometimes called DVB-N like Nokia ;) - )

ATSC (The U.S. version of digital TV)


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