DIGITAL TELEVISION
TERRESTRIAL BROADCASTING
(DTTB) STANDARDS
ATSC ISDB-T
DVB-T DTMB
Other Standards:
DMB DVB-H
DTTB STANDARDS
Standard Acronym Definition Has been adopted
in the
ATSC Advanced Uses 8VSB for terrestrial United States and
Television System broadcasting in other countries
Committee
DVB-T Digital Video Uses Coded Orthogonal Europe, Australia
Broadcasting- Frequency-Division Multiplexing and New Zealand
Terrestrial (C-OFDM) modulation and
supports hierarchical transmission
ISDB-T Terrestrial Uses OFDM and two-dimensional Japan and most of
Integrated interleaving, a system designed to South America
Services Digital provide good reception to fix
Broadcasting receivers and also portable or
mobile receivers
DTMB Digital Terrestrial Adopts time domain synchronous Peoples Republic
Multimedia (TDS) OFDM technology utilizing a in China (PRC),
Broadcasting pseudo-random signal frame to includuing
serve as the guard interval of the Hongkong and
OFDM block and training symbol Macau
Other Standards
Standard Acronym Definition
Digital
DMB Multimedia Have been
Broadcasting devised to allow
handheld
devices such as
mobile phones
DVB-H to receive TV
signals
Two Categories of Digital Terrestrial
Television (DTV) Broadcasting
HDTV High Definition
Television
SDTV Standard Definition
Television
Different ways to receive Digital
Television
DTT -Digital Terrestrial Television
-one of the oldest means of receiving DTV (and TV
in general) using an antenna (known as an aerial in
some countries)
-viewers are limited to whatever channels the
antenna picks up. Signal quality will also vary.
IPTV -that is receiving TV via Internet Protocol, relying
on DSL or optical Cable Line. Finally, an alternative
way is to receive digital TV signals via the open
Internet
Digital -the cable itself has the advantage of a
Cable communication channel localized to a neighborhood
Digital -a larger area (satellite) that provides enough
Satellite customizable bandwidth to allow true video on demand