Technical background

Technical background:

Systems: Analog TV NTSC PAL SECAM Radio Data System (RDS) Digital TV (DTV) ATSC Standards DVB Standards DTMB (DMB-T/H) Standard ISDB Standards Frequency scan Modulation schemes used for analog and digital TV MPEG-2 Standard DSM-CC Object Carousel Protocol DiSEqC Protocols

Hardware component/chipsets related: Sortable List of Chipset Vendors Anatomy of V4L-DVB devices Tuners Demodulators A/V Decoders Radio decoder chipsets GPIO pins I²C Protocol Hardware or Software Decoder? (MPEG) Hardware vs software encoders (MPEG) Remote Controller chipsets Interface chipsets