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#REDIRECT[[Digital Video Broadcasting]]
Digital TV or '''D'''igital '''V'''ideo '''B'''roadcasting, 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 Stream]]s. Depending on the transmission path there a different kinds of Digital TV, which are using different [[Modulation Scheme]]s, 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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''Links:''

* [[DVB Standard]]s

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

* [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]]

Latest revision as of 21:46, 24 April 2006