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DVB-SCENE Issue 16.Indd Edition No. 16 December 2005 DVB-SCENE Tune in to Digital Convergence Tune HD SD 16 The Standard for the Digital World This issue’s highlights > DVB-H et al. HDTV > DVB-H in L-Band or UHF? > IP Datacast over DVB-H > IPTV and DVB-IP > HD ready > CPCM update KICK-OFF! 1 1 3.0 .01010101111 . 00000000000000000 1 3.0 .010101011111B3.0. 3.0 .01010101111 00000000000000000 . 1011111DVB3.0. 3.0 .01010 . 00000000000000000 3.0 .010101011111DVB3.0. 1 3.0 .01010101111 . 00000000000000000 1 WORKING TOGETHER 00000000000000000 3.0 .010101011111DVB3.0. 3.0 .01010101111 . A word from the DVB Project Office Peter MacAvock, Executive Director Peter MacAvock, 3.0 .01010101111 00000000000000000 . 000000 DVB3.0. DVB3.0. broadcast. Delegates from the DVDVB3.0 Americas welcomed the opportunity to see DVB’s terrestrial broadcast 1 technology in action. 1 010101010 100000.111111111111.000.1.1.1.1.0101010 Brazil’s CERTI Foundation was also on 3.0 .01010101111 . 00000000000000000 3.0 .01010101111 . hand to demonstrate interactive applications that use the convergence DVB3.0. 00000000000000000 00000000000000000 .01.111.0000010101010 of DVB-T and the mobile telecoms DVB3.0. network to promote digital inclusion. 00000000000000000 3.0 .010101011111B3.0. CERTI developed these technologies through its membership of the EU’s 00000000000000000 INSTINCT project. DVB was 011111DVB3.0. represented at the event by Eoghan DVB3.0. 3.0 .010101 O’Sullivan with support from a number . of DVB member companies in the 00000000000000000 . region. Korea remains a key market for DVB technology, despite its choice of the 3.0 .010101011111DVB3.0 . ATSC terrestrial standard and the recent deployments of S-DMB and 00000000000000000 T-DMB handheld broadcasting services. DVB has just signed a Memorandum DVB-SCENE : 02 3.0 .010101011111DVB3.0. of Understanding (MoU) with the influential KOBETA organisation (the 00000000000000000 association of Korean broadcast VDVB3.0. D television engineers). The MoU is designed to foster close links between DVB and KOBETA with a view to sharing experiences in the deployment of digital television and promoting harmonised worldwide standards. Finally, DVB has just launched a website dedicated to providing information on DVB-H technology and The Project Office has been active digital television in the region. services around the world. The site representing DVB in the warmer climes We hosted a reception and a promises to be the place where those of Costa Rica at the sixth meeting of the demonstration of the latest DVB-T and interested in handheld broadcasting can CITEL Permanent Consultative DVB-H technologies, using find out all they need to know about the Committee II - the Inter-American commercially available 6 MHz SD and various ongoing trials and pilots, full Telecommunication Commission which HDTV receivers. The DVB-T service launches, product development, coordinates regulatory policy in demonstration consisted of the and much more. But to keep it up-to- broadcasting and telecommunications broadcast of one multiplex in a 6 MHz date it relies on contributions from those in the Americas. DVB has just joined channel that included one HD service, in the industry: you. the organisation with a view to ensuring one SD service and an information Visit www.dvb-h-online.org. accurate representation of information service, with a total data rate of on DVB standards and specifications 19.7 MBit/s. A DVB-H multiplex and aiding with the deployment of containing two services was also NEW STANDARDS: TS 102 819 V1.3.1 ‘Globally Executable MHP (GEM), including a packaged media target’ (Published 28/10/05) TR 102 377 V1.2.1 ‘Implementation guidelines for DVB handheld services’ (11/05) The views expressed in this newsletter are those Editors: William Daly, Harold Bergin DVB and MHP are registered trademarks of the of the individual DVB members or guests and Editorial and Advertising enquiries to: WHD PR DVB Project. Certain other product names, brand are not necessarily the views of the DVB Project Email: [email protected] names and company names may be trademarks or Office or Steering Board. Telephone: +44 (0)20 7799 3100 designations of their respective owners. Published by the DVB Project Office, All rights reserved. No part of this publication may To obtain extra copies of DVB Scene please contact c/o European Broadcasting Union, be reproduced without prior consent of the publisher. Eoghan O’Sullivan at [email protected]. 17a Ancienne Route, All content correct at time of printing. Delivery charges will apply. CH-1218 Grand Saconnex, Switzerland. © DVB-SCENE 2005. Printed by Lithmark Limited. www.dvb.org & www.mhp.org DVB-H et al. Ulrich Reimers – Chairman, DVB Tehnical Module DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting The term IP Datacast is used by DVB - Transmission System for Handheld for the technical elements required to Terminals) is the latest development create DVB-H based services and within the set of DVB transmission those that are necessary to integrate standards. The DVB-H technology is a DVB-H in a hybrid network structure spin-off of the DVB T standard. It is to a consisting of both a mobile large extent compatible with DVB-T but communications network such as takes into account the specific properties GPRS or UMTS and an additional of typical terminals, which are expected DVB-H downstream. IP Datacast to be small, lightweight, portable and – supports various use cases – among very importantly – battery powered. them the broadcasting to terminals DVB-H can offer a downstream channel which do not support an interaction at high data rate which can be used channel. The set of specifications for IP standalone or as an enhancement of Datacast (phase1) was approved by mobile telecommunications networks DVB in October 2005. which many typical handheld terminals In Japan, a system called ISDB-T are able to access anyway. DVB-H thus (Integrated Services Digital Europe. A T-DMB channel (in Europe) creates a bridge between the classical Broadcasting Terrestial) was developed has the same bandwidth as a DAB broadcast systems and the world of taking DVB-T as a starting point. One channel (1.5 MHz). Due to the cellular radio networks. The broadband, feature that ISDB-T adds to DVB-T is introduction of additional forward error DVB-SCENE : 03 high capacity downstream channel the possibility of splitting the channel correction etc., the data rate available provided by DVB-H features a total data bandwidth into segments. The data rate using DMB in that channel is rate of several Mbit/s and may be used which can be transmitted in one approximately 1 Mbit/s. “...can be used standalone or as an enhancement of mobile telecommunications networks...” for audio and video streaming segment is limited to approximately 400 FLO (Forward Link Only) is the brand applications, file downloads and for kbit/s. Content requiring only such a name of a system developed by many other kinds of services. The limited data rate like audio or one video Qualcomm in the US. It is probably fair system thereby introduces new ways of channel targeting small screens can be to say that FLO was developed as a distributing services to handheld received on terminals with a narrow- response to DVB-H and is based on terminals, offering greatly extended band tuner thus reducing the power know-how gained by analysing the possibilities for content providers and consumption of the tuner. ISDB-T is DVB-H technology. Qualcomm saw no network operators. DVB-H is a fully exclusively used in Japan. reason to retain backwards proven technical system which was T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Media compatibility to DVB-T and therefore carefully tested by the DVB-H Validation Broadcasting) and S-DMB (Satellite changed system components Task Force in the course of 2004. Digital Media Broadcasting) are Korean accordingly. FLO is the ‘new kid on the The results of these tests are publicly developments based on DAB (Digital block’. Documentation on the system is available as ETSI Technical Report Audio Broadcasting). The concepts scarce. Performance figures quoted by TR 102 401. behind T-DMB were generated in Qualcomm indicate a performance similar to that of DVB-H with some advantages in required C/N. But how Mobile TV Market Prediction In Millions do you verify the performance of a 80 proprietary system? DVB-H Neither ISDB-T nor T-DMB or S-DMB 70 ISDB-T knows a concept similar to that of IP Datacast. MediaFLO is the service layer T-DMBH on top of FLO. 60 The diagram shows how Informa Telecoms and Media predicts the 50 growth of ISDB-T, T-DMB and DVB-H markets between 2006 and 2010. 40 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Reimers is the 30 Managing Director of Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (Institute for 20 Communications Technology) at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig 10 (Braunschweig Technical University), Germany. He is one of the founders of the DVB Project and the chairman 0 of the Technical Module of the DVB 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Project. 1 1 3.0 .01010101111 . 00000000000000000 1 3.0 .010101011111B3.0. 3.0 .01010101111 00000000000000000 . 1011111DVB3.0. 3.0 .01010 . 00000000000000000 DVB-H in L-Band or UHF? 3.0 .010101011111DVB3.0. 1 3.0 .01010101111 . 00000000000000000 1 00000000000000000 3.0 .010101011111DVB3.0. 3.0 .01010101111 . 3.0 .01010101111 00000000000000000 . 000000 DVB3.0. DVB3.0. DVDVB3.0 CHOICE OPTIONS Yannick Lévy, CEO DiBCom 1 1 010101010 With the analogue TV switch off Yannick Lévy received his 100000.111111111111.000.1.1.1.1.0101010 3.0 .01010101111 scheduled from 2010 to 2012, UHF engineering degree from the Ecole . 00000000000000000 3.0 .01010101111 . frequencies in many countries are Supérieure d’Electricité, Paris, DVB3.0. 00000000000000000 00000000000000000 .01.111.0000010101010 currently occupied by both analogue DVB3.0.
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