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DVB-SCENE Issue 21 Lo Res.Indd Edition No.21 March 2007 DVB-SCENE Tune in to Digital Convergence Tune 21 The Standard for the Digital World I want This issue’s highlights > Convergence Utopia > IPTV Analysis & Update my > HDTV Update > Future Focus on DVB-T > DVB-H Interoperability > Introducing DVB-SH > A Look at Latin America > Market Watch IPTV Unique Broadband Systems Ltd. is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of complete DVB-T/H system solutions for Mobile Media Operators and Broadcasters DVB-H IP Encapsulator DVB-T/H Gateway DVE 6000 DVE 7000 / DVE-R 7000 What makes DVE 6000 the best product on the market today? The DVE 7000 DVB-H Satellite Gateway is the core of highly optimized, efficient and cost effective mobile Dynamic Time SlicingTM Technique delivering DVB-H architecture. A single DVE 7000 device unprecedented bandwidth utilization and processes, distributes and manages global and local network efficiency (Statistical Multiplexing) content grouped in packages to multiple remote SFN DVB-SCENE : 02 Internal SI/PSI table editor, parser, compiler & MFN networks through a satellite link and drasti- and generator (UBS SI/PSI TDL) cally improves satellite link efficiency. The DVE-R 7000 Internal SFN Adapter satellite receiver demultiplexes the content specific to it’s location. Internal stream recorder and player IP DVB-S2 ASI Single compact unit DVE-R 7000 SFN1 DVE 6000 NetManager Application MODULATOR 1 SFN3 SFN2 MODULATOR 3 DVB-T/H Modulator MODULATOR 2 DVM 5000 Fully DVB-H Compliant 30 MHz to 1 GHz RF Output (L-band version available) Web Browser & SNMP Remote Control Available with +10 dBm amplifier for lab tests DVB-T/H Repeater Available in portable version Compact outdoor self-contained 200 W terrestrial repeater platform Fully SNMP compliant No external peripherals required DVB-T/H Exciter DVB-S2 receiver for backbone signal distribution DVX 5500 IP backbone interface Fully DVB-H Compliant High performance LDMOS Power Amplifier Built-in GPS synchronization Management of complete repeater system Electronic antenna steering and Web Browser & SNMP Remote Control null elimination technology +20 dBm for direct PA drive Available in DVB-T, DVB-H, DAB, DMB and STiMi standards Built-in interfaces for cooling system management, as well as proprietary waveforms such as XM and Sirius transmitter diagnostics and emergency control functions Built-in NOC communication modem Peter MacAvock, Executive Director Peter MacAvock, BALANCING ACTS A word from the DVB Project Office Winter in Europe is always a busy time and the timing are the responsibility of in DVB, with much development work DVB’s Commercial Module as it drafts going on and a heightened meeting its Commercial Requirements. The schedule. It’s also the ski season in Commercial Module must balance the Switzerland, but that’s another story. sometimes conflicting requirements of DVB is working on a number of very ensuring stability and facilitating the important projects at present. DVB-SH innovation which is inevitable today. – the handheld specification for S-Band This is a delicate task, for producing frequencies is being completed, and a new specification which does not the DVB-T2 work is just starting. Both correctly meet the requirements of specifications promise much and are industry would have dire consequences typical of DVB’s role in a changing for the stability users have come to complex task which DVB’s Commercial world. One can no longer expect a core expect from DVB. Module has done in defining the DVB technology NEVER to change. T2 seeks to exploit a unique opportunity commercial requirements which will DVB’s role is not only to develop for the broadcasting industry: analogue drive the process. And T2 is only one new technologies, but to ensure that switch-off. The technology development of many technologies: SH, IPTV and existing ones are updated at opportune will start during the course of 2007, but others that are covered in this issue of moments. The functionalities included in many ways this is easier than the DVB-SCENE. Enjoy. Cover: image courtesy of Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company DVB-SCENE : 03 NEW STANDARDS TS 102 005 V1.2.1 “Specification for the use of Video and Audio Coding in DVB services delivered directly over IP 1 protocols” (06/05/06) 1 EN 300 468 V1.7.1 “Specification for Service Information (SI) in DVB systems” (23/05/06) 3.0 .01010101111 EN 302 307 V1.1.2 “Second generation framing structure, channel coding and modulation systems for Broadcasting, . Interactive Services, News Gathering and other broadband satellite applications (DVB-S2)” (13/06/06) 00000000000000000 TR 101 790 V1.3.1 “Guidelines for the Implementation and Usage of the DVB Interaction Channel for Satellite Distribution Systems” (14/09/06) 1 3.0 .010101011111B3.0. TS 102 034 V1.2.1 “Transport of MPEG-2 Based DVB Services over IP Based Networks” (28/09/06) . TS 102 523 V1.1.1 “Portable Content Formats (PCF)” (05/10/06) 3.0 .01010101111 00000000000000000 TR 102 542 V1.1.1 “Guidelines for DVB IP Phase 1 Handbook” (14/11/06) . TS 102 539 V1.1.1 “Carriage of Broadband Content Guide (BCG) information over Internet Protocol (IP)” (14/11/06) 1011111DVB3.0. 3.0 .01010 TS 102 471 V1.2.1 “IP Datacast over DVB-H: ESG” (17/11/06) . EN 300 743 V1.3.1 “Subtitling systems” (29/11/06) TS 102 472 V1.2.1 “IP Datacast over DVB-H: Content Delivery Protocols” (13/12/06) 00000000000000000 3.0 .010101011111DVB3.0. 1 3.0 .01010101111 . 00000000000000000 NEW MEMBERS 1 Availink Inc. – Fabless semiconductor company providing technology intense, 00000000000000000 3.0 .010101011111DVB3.0. low cost IC solutions. www.availink.com 3.0 .01010101111 . Amino Communications Ltd. – Specialist in products and technology for 3.0 .01010101111 00000000000000000 . 000000 IPTV, triple play, and in-home multimedia distribution. www.aminocom.com DVB3.0. DVB3.0. Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS) - Coordinates research and DVDVB3.0 education in the field of Information Technology. www.tucs.fi University of Surrey (CCSR) – Major centre of excellence in technology, 1 1 010101010 science and engineering. www.surrey.ac.uk 100000.111111111111.000.1.1.1.1.0101010 3.0 .01010101111 . 00000000000000000 – Germany’s national 3.0 .01010101111 Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR) . research centre for aeronautics and space. www.dlr.de DVB3.0. 00000000000000000 00000000000000000 .01.111.0000010101010 DVB3.0. 00000000000000000 3.0 .010101011111B3.0. The views expressed in this newsletter are those Editors: William Daly, Harold Bergin DVB and MHP are registered trademarks of the 00000000000000000 of the individual DVB members or guests and Editorial and Advertising enquiries to: WHD PR DVB Project. Certain other product names, brand 011111DVB3.0. DVB3.0. 3.0 .010101 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. 00000000000000000 . Published by the DVB Project Office, All rights reserved. No part of this publication may To obtain extra copies of DVB-SCENE please c/o European Broadcasting Union, be reproduced without prior consent of the publisher. contact Eoghan O’Sullivan at [email protected]. 3.0 .010101011111DVB3.0 . 17a Ancienne Route, All content correct at time of printing. Delivery charges will apply. CH-1218 Grand Saconnex, Switzerland. © DVB-SCENE 2007. Printed by Lithmark Limited. 00000000000000000 www.dvb.org, www.mhp.org & www.dvb-h.org 3.0 .010101011111DVB3.0. 00000000000000000 VDVB3.0. D CONVERGENCE UTOPIA In My Opinion – Ian Childs Ian Childs stepped down as Vice-Chairman of the DVB Technical Module last June, following his retirement from the BBC where he was Chief Scientist at their Research and Development Department. His career with the BBC spanned nearly 35 years, during which time he worked on many important broadcasting developments which included digital television, DAB and high definition television. He continues to take an active role in digital television developments, however, and is Chairman of Technical Council for the UK’s Digital Television Group. He is an Honorary 1 Fellow of the DVB Project and a Visiting Professor at Essex 1 University. 3.0 .01010101111 . Ten years ago, it was not uncommon digital television platform now exceeds the same path as online booksellers to read articles in the technical press 60 percent - take-up being relatively such as Amazon, we can predict the 00000000000000000 predicting and analysing ‘convergence’ equally spread between satellite, cable availability of a ‘long tail’ of programmes between the areas of broadcasting, and terrestrial (Freeview) platforms. – each of which attracts only a small 1 DVB-SCENE : 04 telecommunications and computing. One resulting development, perhaps audience but, when aggregated 3.0 .010101011111B3.0. In the year during which analogue spurred by this competition between together, becomes a worthwhile television starts to be turned off in distribution methods, has been that commercial proposition. the UK – the market with which I service providers have started to Taking all of these factors together, we 3.0 .01010101111 00000000000000000 am personally most familiar – it is offer new enhancements to the basic can make an educated guess as to . interesting to examine where we are in services. High definition channels have what the future broadcasting landscape the convergence process. been launched on satellite and cable, might look like. There will be a smaller 1011111DVB3.0. One very significant engine driving and PVR set-top boxes are becoming number of overall digital channels than 3.0 .01010 . convergence has been the standards increasingly available (e.g. Sky+ and/or today, but the majority will be broadcast developed by DVB. They are used Freeview Playback). 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