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The Standard for Digital Video Broadcasts. Specified by the DVB Consortium and the European Telecommunication Standards Institute ''ETSI''.
The Standard for Digital Video Broadcasts. Specified by the DVB Consortium and the European Telecommunication Standards Institute ''ETSI''.


Accepted worldwide except: U.S. and some central/south american countries which broadcast a mixture of the proprietary [[Wikipedia:DirecTV|DirecTV]] and standardized [[ATSC]] transmissions, and Japan which broadcast standardized [[ISBD]] transmissions.
Accepted worldwide except: U.S. and some central/south american countries which broadcast a mixture of the proprietary [[Wikipedia:DirecTV|DirecTV]] and standardized [[ATSC]] transmissions, and Japan which broadcast standardized [[ISDB]] transmissions.


http://www.dvb.org/ has a nice overview of the relevant standards documents
http://www.dvb.org/ has a nice overview of the relevant standards documents

Revision as of 04:05, 15 March 2006

The Standard for Digital Video Broadcasts. Specified by the DVB Consortium and the European Telecommunication Standards Institute ETSI.

Accepted worldwide except: U.S. and some central/south american countries which broadcast a mixture of the proprietary DirecTV and standardized ATSC transmissions, and Japan which broadcast standardized ISDB transmissions.

http://www.dvb.org/ has a nice overview of the relevant standards documents ("Home > Technology > Standards & Specifications"). The individual documents are published by ETSI and can be downloaded for free (after registration) from http://www.etsi.org/.

List of Standard Parts

Important parts of the DVB Standard are
Full Standard Reference Description
ITU-T H.222.0 MPEG2 Stream Format Definitions
ETSI EN 300 468 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Specification for Service Information (SI) in DVB systems
ETSI TR 101 211 Guidelines on implementation and usage of Service Information (SI)
ETSI ETR 211 Guidelines on implementation and usage of Service Information (SI)
ETS 300 472 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Specification for conveying ITU-R System B Teletext in DVB
ETS 300 421 Digital broadcasting systems for television, sound and data services; Framing structure, channel coding and Modulation for 11/12 GHz satellite services
ETS 300 429 Digital broadcasting systems for television, sound and data services; Framing structure, channel coding and Modulation for cable systems
ETS 300 744 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Framing structure, channel coding and Modulation for digital Terrestrial television (DVB-T)
ETR 289 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Support for use of scrambling and Conditional Access (CA) within digital broadcasting systems


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