DVB – Digital Video

Broadcasting Standards
 What is DVB ?
 DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) is a set of international
open standards for digital television
 DVB standards are maintained by the DVB Project
(international industry consortium) and published by a
Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI),
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
(CENELEC) and European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
 DVB standards are publicly available, free of charge at
http://www.etsi.org and http://www.dvb.org
 DVB standards are used in Europe; similar standards are
ATSC (used in USA/North America), ISDB (used in
Japan/South America) and DMB (used in China, Korea)
DVB generalities
 DVB standards define the physical layer and data link layer of the
distribution system
 DVB standards are based on MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards and
all data is transmitted in MPEG Transport Streams
 most important DVB standards are:
 for satellite TV: DVB-S, DVB-S2
 for terrestrial (aerial) TV: DVB-T, DVB-T2
 for cable TV: DVB-C, DVB-C2
 for handheld devices TV: DVB-H, DVB-SH
 DVB has a conditional access system (DVB-CA) through Common
Scrambling Algorithm (DVB-CSA) and a physical Common Interface
(DVB-CI)
 DVB-S and DVB-C were ratified in 1994 and DVB-T in 1997