DVB-T, the Glossary
DVB-T, short for Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial, is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in Singapore in February 1998.[1]
Table of Contents
91 relations: Advanced Video Coding, Amateur television, Analog-to-digital converter, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, ATSC standards, Belgium, Bit rate, Block code, Carrier wave, Convolutional code, Cyclic prefix, D-book, Data compression, Data-rate units, Decorrelation, Digital audio, Digital Audio Broadcasting, Digital television, Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast, Digital terrestrial television, Digital terrestrial television in Denmark, Digital terrestrial television in Sweden, Digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom, Digital video, Digital video recorder, Digital-to-analog converter, Doppler effect, DVB, DVB-H, DVB-T2, El Espectador, Electronic news gathering, Equalization (communications), Error correction code, ETSI, European Union, Frame synchronization, Freeview (New Zealand), Freeview (UK), Global Positioning System, Guard interval, Hertz, High Efficiency Video Coding, High-definition television, High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding, Interactive television, Intersymbol interference, IP over DVB, ISDB, ISDB-T International, ... Expand index (41 more) »
- Digital Video Broadcasting
- ETSI
- Television transmission standards
- Video formats
Advanced Video Coding
Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding.
See DVB-T and Advanced Video Coding
Amateur television
Amateur television (ATV) is the transmission of broadcast quality video and audio over the wide range of frequencies of radio waves allocated for radio amateur (Ham) use.
See DVB-T and Amateur television
Analog-to-digital converter
In electronics, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A-to-D) is a system that converts an analog signal, such as a sound picked up by a microphone or light entering a digital camera, into a digital signal.
See DVB-T and Analog-to-digital converter
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU or APBU), formed in 1964, is a non-profit, professional association of broadcasting organisations.
See DVB-T and Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
ATSC standards
Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards are an International set of standards for broadcast and digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable and satellite networks. DVB-T and ATSC standards are television transmission standards.
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
Bit rate
In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time.
Block code
In coding theory, block codes are a large and important family of error-correcting codes that encode data in blocks.
Carrier wave
In telecommunications, a carrier wave, carrier signal, or just carrier, is a periodic waveform (usually sinusoidal) that carries no information that has one or more of its properties modified (the called modulation) by an information-bearing signal (called the message signal or modulation signal) for the purpose of conveying information.
Convolutional code
In telecommunication, a convolutional code is a type of error-correcting code that generates parity symbols via the sliding application of a boolean polynomial function to a data stream.
See DVB-T and Convolutional code
Cyclic prefix
In telecommunications, the term cyclic prefix refers to the prefixing of a symbol with a repetition of the end.
D-book
The D-Book is the UK technical specification for digital terrestrial television (DTT).
See DVB-T and D-book
Data compression
In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.
See DVB-T and Data compression
Data-rate units
In telecommunications, data transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.
Decorrelation
Decorrelation is a general term for any process that is used to reduce autocorrelation within a signal, or cross-correlation within a set of signals, while preserving other aspects of the signal.
Digital audio
Digital audio is a representation of sound recorded in, or converted into, digital form.
Digital Audio Broadcasting
Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) is a digital radio standard for broadcasting digital audio radio services in many countries around the world, defined, supported, marketed and promoted by the WorldDAB organisation.
See DVB-T and Digital Audio Broadcasting
Digital television
Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals.
See DVB-T and Digital television
DTMB (Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast) is the digital TV standard for mobile and fixed devices, developed in the People's Republic of China.
See DVB-T and Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast
Digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television (DTTV, DTT, or DTTB) is a technology for terrestrial television where television stations broadcast television content in a digital format.
See DVB-T and Digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television in Denmark
Digital terrestrial television in Denmark was technically launched in March 2006 after some years of public trials.
See DVB-T and Digital terrestrial television in Denmark
Digital terrestrial television in Sweden
Digital terrestrial television was launched in Sweden in 1999.
See DVB-T and Digital terrestrial television in Sweden
Digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom
Digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom encompasses over 100 television, radio and interactive services broadcast via the United Kingdom's terrestrial television network and receivable with a standard television set.
See DVB-T and Digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom
Digital video
Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data.
Digital video recorder
A digital video recorder (DVR), also referred to as a personal video recorder (PVR) particularly in Canada and British English, is an electronic device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device.
See DVB-T and Digital video recorder
Digital-to-analog converter
In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC, D/A, D2A, or D-to-A) is a system that converts a digital signal into an analog signal.
See DVB-T and Digital-to-analog converter
Doppler effect
The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the wave.
DVB
Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is a set of international open standards for digital television. DVB-T and DVB are digital Video Broadcasting and television transmission standards.
See DVB-T and DVB
DVB-H
DVB-H (digital video broadcasting - handheld) is one of three prevalent mobile TV formats. DVB-T and DVB-H are digital Video Broadcasting, ETSI and television transmission standards.
See DVB-T and DVB-H
DVB-T2
DVB-T2 is an abbreviation for "Digital Video Broadcasting – Second Generation Terrestrial"; it is the extension of the television standard DVB-T, issued by the consortium DVB, devised for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television. DVB-T and DVB-T2 are digital Video Broadcasting and television transmission standards.
See DVB-T and DVB-T2
El Espectador
El Espectador ("The Spectator") is a newspaper of national circulation within Colombia, founded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez on March 22, 1887, in Medellín and published since 1915 in Bogotá.
Electronic news gathering
Electronic news gathering (ENG) or electronic journalism (EJ) is usage of electronic video and audio technologies by reporters to gather and present news instead of using film cameras.
See DVB-T and Electronic news gathering
Equalization (communications)
In telecommunication, equalization is the reversal of distortion incurred by a signal transmitted through a channel.
See DVB-T and Equalization (communications)
Error correction code
In computing, telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels.
See DVB-T and Error correction code
ETSI
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, not-for-profit, standardization organization operating in the field of information and communications.
See DVB-T and ETSI
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
Frame synchronization
In telecommunication, frame synchronization or framing is the process by which, while receiving a stream of fixed-length frames, the receiver identifies the frame boundaries, permitting the data bits within the frame to be extracted for decoding or retransmission.
See DVB-T and Frame synchronization
Freeview (New Zealand)
Freeview is New Zealand's free-to-air television platform.
See DVB-T and Freeview (New Zealand)
Freeview (UK)
Freeview is the United Kingdom's sole digital terrestrial television platform.
Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force.
See DVB-T and Global Positioning System
Guard interval
In telecommunications, guard intervals are used to ensure that distinct transmissions do not interfere with one another, or otherwise cause overlapping transmissions.
Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.
See DVB-T and Hertz
High Efficiency Video Coding
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard designed as part of the MPEG-H project as a successor to the widely used Advanced Video Coding (AVC, H.264, or MPEG-4 Part 10).
See DVB-T and High Efficiency Video Coding
High-definition television
High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies.
See DVB-T and High-definition television
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC) is an audio coding format for lossy data compression of digital audio defined as an MPEG-4 Audio profile in ISO/IEC 14496–3.
See DVB-T and High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding
Interactive television
Interactive television is a form of media convergence, adding data services to traditional television technology.
See DVB-T and Interactive television
Intersymbol interference
In telecommunication, intersymbol interference (ISI) is a form of distortion of a signal in which one symbol interferes with subsequent symbols.
See DVB-T and Intersymbol interference
IP over DVB
IP over DVB implies that Internet Protocol datagrams are distributed using some digital television system, for example DVB-H, DVB-SH, DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C or their successors like DVB-T2, DVB-S2, and DVB-C2. DVB-T and iP over DVB are digital Video Broadcasting.
ISDB
Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (ISDB; Japanese:, Tōgō dejitaru hōsō sābisu) is a Japanese broadcasting standard for digital television (DTV) and digital radio. DVB-T and ISDB are television transmission standards.
See DVB-T and ISDB
ISDB-T International
ISDB-T International, also known in Brazil as Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão Digital (SBTVD; Brazilian Digital Television System), is a technical standard for digital television broadcast used in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Botswana, Chile, Honduras, Venezuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Philippines, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Uruguay, based on the Japanese ISDB-T standard. DVB-T and ISDB-T International are television transmission standards.
See DVB-T and ISDB-T International
List of digital television channels in Australia
This is a list of the current channels available on digital terrestrial television in Australia.
See DVB-T and List of digital television channels in Australia
Ministry of Communications and Informatics
The Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika; abbreviated as Kominfo) is an Indonesian government ministry that is responsible for communications, information affairs and internet censorship.
See DVB-T and Ministry of Communications and Informatics
Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications (Bulgaria)
Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications of Bulgaria (translit) is a Bulgarian government ministry, part of which are.
See DVB-T and Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications (Bulgaria)
Modulation
In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a separate signal called the modulation signal that typically contains information to be transmitted.
MPEG program stream
Program stream (PS or MPEG-PS) is a container format for multiplexing digital audio, video and more.
See DVB-T and MPEG program stream
MPEG transport stream
MPEG transport stream (MPEG-TS, MTS) or simply transport stream (TS) is a standard digital container format for transmission and storage of audio, video, and Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) data.
See DVB-T and MPEG transport stream
MPEG-2
MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information".
See DVB-T and MPEG-2
MPEG-4
MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats.
See DVB-T and MPEG-4
Multimedia Home Platform (DVB-MHP) is an open middleware system standard designed by the DVB project for interactive digital television. DVB-T and Multimedia Home Platform are digital Video Broadcasting.
See DVB-T and Multimedia Home Platform
Multiplexing
In telecommunications and computer networking, multiplexing (sometimes contracted to muxing) is a method by which multiple analog or digital signals are combined into one signal over a shared medium.
Network packet
In telecommunications and computer networking, a network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network.
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
In telecommunications, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a type of digital transmission used in digital modulation for encoding digital (binary) data on multiple carrier frequencies.
See DVB-T and Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
Phase-shift keying
Phase-shift keying (PSK) is a digital modulation process which conveys data by changing (modulating) the phase of a constant frequency carrier wave.
See DVB-T and Phase-shift keying
Quadrature amplitude modulation
Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is the name of a family of digital modulation methods and a related family of analog modulation methods widely used in modern telecommunications to transmit information.
See DVB-T and Quadrature amplitude modulation
Radio broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.
See DVB-T and Radio broadcasting
Radio frequency
Radio frequency (RF) is the oscillation rate of an alternating electric current or voltage or of a magnetic, electric or electromagnetic field or mechanical system in the frequency range from around to around.
Reed–Solomon error correction
Reed–Solomon codes are a group of error-correcting codes that were introduced by Irving S. Reed and Gustave Solomon in 1960.
See DVB-T and Reed–Solomon error correction
RF front end
In a radio receiver circuit, the RF front end, short for radio frequency front end, is a generic term for all the circuitry between a receiver's antenna input up to and including the mixer stage.
Saorview
Saorview is the national digital terrestrial television (DTT) service in Ireland.
Scrambler
In telecommunications, a scrambler is a device that transposes or inverts signals or otherwise encodes a message at the sender's side to make the message unintelligible at a receiver not equipped with an appropriately set descrambling device.
Set-top box
A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into content in a form that can then be displayed on the television screen or other display device.
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Single-frequency network
A single-frequency network or SFN is a broadcast network where several transmitters simultaneously send the same signal over the same frequency channel.
See DVB-T and Single-frequency network
Standard-definition television
Standard-definition television (SDTV; also standard definition or SD) is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition.
See DVB-T and Standard-definition television
Subcarrier
A subcarrier is a sideband of a radio frequency carrier wave, which is modulated to send additional information.
Swiss Broadcasting Corporation
The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft; Société suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision; Società svizzera di radiotelevisione; Societad Svizra da Radio e Televisiun; SRG SSR) is the Swiss public broadcasting association, founded in 1931, the holding company of 24 radio and television channels.
See DVB-T and Swiss Broadcasting Corporation
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
Teletext
Teletext, or broadcast teletext, is a standard for displaying text and rudimentary graphics on suitably equipped television sets.
Television in Croatia
Television in Croatia was first introduced in 1956.
See DVB-T and Television in Croatia
Television in Germany
Television in Germany began in Berlin on 22 March 1935, broadcasting for 90 minutes three times a week.
See DVB-T and Television in Germany
Television in Iran
Television was first introduced to Iran in 1958, as a privately-owned and commercially-operated enterprise, before being nationalised, remaining a state-controlled monopoly, first of National Iranian Radio and Television, and following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.
See DVB-T and Television in Iran
Television in North Macedonia
Television in North Macedonia was first introduced in 1964; it remains the most popular news medium.
See DVB-T and Television in North Macedonia
Television in Slovenia
The following is a list of television stations in Slovenia.
See DVB-T and Television in Slovenia
Telewizja Polska
Telewizja Polska S.A. (TVP), also known in English as Polish Television, is a public service broadcaster in Poland, founded in 1952.
See DVB-T and Telewizja Polska
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT; Turkish: Türkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu) is the national public broadcaster of Turkey, founded in 1964.
See DVB-T and Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
TV Vlaanderen
TV Vlaanderen is a digital satellite television and terrestrial television service provider for the Flanders region in Belgium.
Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).
See DVB-T and Ultra high frequency
Very high frequency
Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter.
See DVB-T and Very high frequency
Viterbi algorithm
The Viterbi algorithm is a dynamic programming algorithm for obtaining the maximum a posteriori probability estimate of the most likely sequence of hidden states—called the Viterbi path—that results in a sequence of observed events.
See DVB-T and Viterbi algorithm
VRT (broadcaster)
The VRT is the national public service broadcaster for the Flemish Community of Belgium.
See DVB-T and VRT (broadcaster)
1080p
1080p (1920 × 1080 progressively displayed pixels; also known as Full HD or FHD, and BT.709) is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1,920 pixels displayed across the screen horizontally and 1,080 pixels down the screen vertically; the p stands for progressive scan, i.e. non-interlaced. DVB-T and 1080p are video formats.
See DVB-T and 1080p
See also
Digital Video Broadcasting
- BBC Research & Development
- Common Interface
- Common Scrambling Algorithm
- Conditional-access module
- Content reference identifier
- DVB
- DVB 3D-TV
- DVB-C
- DVB-CPCM
- DVB-H
- DVB-HTML
- DVB-MS
- DVB-RCS
- DVB-RCT
- DVB-S
- DVB-S2
- DVB-S2X
- DVB-SH
- DVB-T
- DVB-T2
- Data and object carousel
- IP over DVB
- MX1 Ltd
- Multimedia Home Platform
- RR Media
- Service List Registry
- Synamedia
- TV-Anytime
- WiB (Digital Terrestrial Television)
ETSI
- Associated Signature Containers
- CAT-iq
- CEPT Recommendation T/CD 06-01
- DECT Ultra Low Energy
- DECT-2020
- DVB-C
- DVB-H
- DVB-S2X
- DVB-T
- Data Radio Channel
- Digital enhanced cordless telecommunications
- Digital mobile radio
- Digital private mobile radio
- ETSI
- ETSI Satellite Digital Radio
- European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations
- GEO-Mobile Radio Interface
- GSM
- General Packet Radio Service
- Generic access profile
- Globally Executable MHP
- HiperLAN
- HiperMAN
- Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV
- Multi-access edge computing
- Open Smart Grid Protocol
- Service List Registry
- TBR21
- TETRA
- Telecoms & Internet converged Services & Protocols for Advanced Networks
- Translation Memory eXchange
Television transmission standards
- 1seg
- ATSC 3.0
- ATSC standards
- ATSC-M/H
- Advanced Television Systems Committee
- Broadcast television systems
- Clear-Vision
- D2-MAC
- DVB
- DVB-C
- DVB-H
- DVB-S
- DVB-S2
- DVB-S2X
- DVB-T
- DVB-T2
- Digital Visual Interface
- HD-MAC
- HDBaseT
- HDMI
- ISDB
- ISDB-T International
- Interactive television standards
- Multiplexed Analogue Components
- NICAM
- NTSC
- Narrow-bandwidth television
- PAL
- PAL-M
- PALplus
- Rec. 2020
- SECAM
- Television standards conversion
Video formats
- 1080i
- 1080p
- 1440p
- 24p
- 480i
- 480p
- 576i
- 576p
- 720p
- A-MAC
- B-MAC
- C-MAC
- CCIR System A
- CCIR System B
- CCIR System C
- CCIR System D
- CCIR System E
- CCIR System G
- CCIR System H
- CCIR System I
- CCIR System K
- CCIR System L
- CCIR System M
- CCIR System N
- Clear-Vision
- D-MAC
- D2-MAC
- DVB-T
- Effio
- High frame rate
- IFrame (video format)
- IRE (unit)
- Interlaced video
- Joint Level Interface Protocol
- List of broadcast video formats
- MovieCD
- Moving image formats
- Multiplexed Analogue Components
- NTSC
- PAL
- PAL-M
- PALplus
- SECAM
- SMPTE 292
- Sound-in-Syncs
- Ultra-high-definition television
- VF bandwidth
- Video coding format
- Video file format
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T
Also known as DVB T, DVBT, Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial.
, List of digital television channels in Australia, Ministry of Communications and Informatics, Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications (Bulgaria), Modulation, MPEG program stream, MPEG transport stream, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Multimedia Home Platform, Multiplexing, Network packet, Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, Phase-shift keying, Quadrature amplitude modulation, Radio broadcasting, Radio frequency, Reed–Solomon error correction, RF front end, Saorview, Scrambler, Set-top box, Singapore, Single-frequency network, Standard-definition television, Subcarrier, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, Switzerland, Teletext, Television in Croatia, Television in Germany, Television in Iran, Television in North Macedonia, Television in Slovenia, Telewizja Polska, Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, TV Vlaanderen, Ultra high frequency, Very high frequency, Viterbi algorithm, VRT (broadcaster), 1080p.