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DVB-T, the Glossary

Index DVB-T

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

  1. 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) »

  2. Digital Video Broadcasting
  3. ETSI
  4. Television transmission standards
  5. 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.

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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.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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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.

See DVB-T and Bit rate

Block code

In coding theory, block codes are a large and important family of error-correcting codes that encode data in blocks.

See DVB-T and Block code

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.

See DVB-T and Carrier wave

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.

See DVB-T and Cyclic prefix

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.

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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.

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Digital audio

Digital audio is a representation of sound recorded in, or converted into, digital form.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

See DVB-T and Doppler effect

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.

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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.

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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.

See DVB-T and European Union

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.

See DVB-T and Freeview (UK)

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.

See DVB-T and Guard interval

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.

See DVB-T and IP over DVB

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.

See DVB-T and Modulation

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.

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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.

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Network packet

In telecommunications and computer networking, a network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Saorview

Saorview is the national digital terrestrial television (DTT) service in Ireland.

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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.

See DVB-T and Scrambler

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.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

See DVB-T and Singapore

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.

See DVB-T and Subcarrier

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.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Teletext

Teletext, or broadcast teletext, is a standard for displaying text and rudimentary graphics on suitably equipped television sets.

See DVB-T and Teletext

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.

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TV Vlaanderen

TV Vlaanderen is a digital satellite television and terrestrial television service provider for the Flanders region in Belgium.

See DVB-T and TV Vlaanderen

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.

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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

ETSI

Television transmission standards

Video formats

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T

Also known as DVB T, DVBT, Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial.

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