Issue No. 40 DVBSCENE September 2012 The Technology Update from DVB www.dvb.org HEVC COMPANION SCREEN UHDTV 4K UHDTV 8K CI PLUS S2 EXTENSIONS CARRIER ID AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC 3DTV NEXT GENERATION HANDHELD IP DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS SPECTRUM RESOURCES CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY David Wood Provides Some Forward Ulrich Reimers Reflects on 20 Years Nick Wells Looks at the Challenges & 04 GEM Profile for 3DTV Thinking on 3DTV Developing Digital Television Opportunities Ahead for DVB 06 Carrier ID Technology 07 Second Screen 11 FoBTV 12 Russia’s Migration to T2 13 Analysis 05 08 10 14 Market Watch IF ONLY DVB-T2 WERE THIS EASY. NOW IT IS. Discover the industry’s only complete, turnkey DVB-T2 solution from Harris. With an integrated compact video headend, gateway, test tools and digital transmitters, it’s the easy path to DVB-T2. broadcast.harris.com/DVB-T2 UK, Israel, Africa North, Central, Eastern Europe Southern Europe Middle East, South Asia +44 118 964 8200 +49 89 149 049 0 +33 1 47 92 44 00 +971 4 433 8250 harris.com Reflections & New Horizons A Word From DVB Twenty one years ago, in May 1991, six men million digital receivers, representing 60% of met for a discreet meeting on the beautiful the world market, would be based on DVB castle at Schönburg overlooking the Rhine technology. River. They all shared the common concern What were the reasons for this success that the broadcast industry in Europe was story? First of all, DVB is a private association running into a dead end by following the that includes those involved in digital D2-MAC and HDMAC route mandated by television, such as broadcasters, network European Regulators. Multiplexed Analog operators, manufacturers and regulators. It Components (MAC) was still an analog follows a market driven approach bringing system while at the same time digital together all relevant stakeholders to agree by television transmission systems were already consensus on the best solution. Another Peter Siebert being discussed in research labs. It was just a reason has to be the technical quality of the Executive Director question of time before these solutions would specifications. be market ready. The successful work of DVB will continue Steering Board meeting in July the go-ahead This meeting was basically the birth place with Nick Wells (BBC) as the new TM was given for this work. Work is also in the of the DVB Project and one of its participants chairman. Nick has been active within DVB pipeline on a new form factor for CI Plus. was Ulrich Reimers, who at that time was for a long time. The enormous success of the Considering the high number of TVs with ARD/NDR and president of the second-generation terrestrial specification equipped with CI Plus interfaces this will be technical commission of ARD/ZDF/ORF/ (DVB-T2) was achieved under his quite a relevant activity. This short list shows SRG. Two years later, in September 1993, the chairmanship of the TM-T2 module. that many interesting activities will be DVB Memorandum of Understanding was Interesting tasks continue to lie ahead of undertaken in the coming years and I have not signed marking the beginning of the us. The latest progress in display technology even mentioned the new work items for satellite. extremely successful standardization work that combined with the upcoming new video I can only invite all interested parties to join us lead to the publication of DVB-S, DVB-C coding standard will allow for resolution and take part in the development of tomorrow’s and DVB-T. All these specifications were beyond HDTV. Already activities have broadcast standards developed in the DVB Technical Module commenced in DVB on Ultra High Finally, I would like to thank Ulrich for (TM) under the chairmanship of Ulrich. Definition Television (UHDTV) and we can his marvelous cooperation with me over the These three standards and their second- expect more in the years to come. Another last three years. I am also very much looking generation successors are the technical basis hot topic will be the subject of Companion forward to working together on future DVB for digital broadcast television worldwide and Screens where we will work on multiscreen successes with Nick Wells as TM chair and who could have predicted that more than 700 scenarios for the living room. At the last Muriel Deschanel as the new vice chair. 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If an application The second 3D mode allows an now just puts a graphics overlay on top of individual offset that will be used by these two frames, there would be a collision consecutive graphics operations. This allows between the graphics and the video. These creating graphic scenes with 2D objects at collisions would corrupt the 3D arbitrary depths in front of the movie. This presentation and lead to a broken picture. can be compared to a cut out paper diorama Consequently, the application needs to with flat figures at various depths. The ‘understand’ that there is a 3D movie being graphics are synchronized and rendered on presented, and needs to take precautions, to the Left and Right screen plane. ensure that the graphics always appear in The third 3D mode allows creating a 3D front of the movie. (see fig.2) scene that consists of 3D OpenGL ES One challenge during the creation of objects. The scene is logically positioned in the GEM S3D specification was to ensure front of the video scene and is rendered to that existing 2D applications can be easily two graphics planes. It is based on the Java made ‘3D aware’, i.e., to be able to reuse API for OpenGL ES, which is available as a them with only very minimal modifications. JCP standard (JSR239). GEM S3D adds an Michael Lagally, Oracle The GEM S3D profile API to enable the stereoscopic rendering of The stereoscopic profile defines several an OpenGL scene to two different viewports stereoscopic display modes and supporting (one for the Left and Right eye). This is a DVB has recently published its specification APIs to resolve this problem and ensure that straightforward and lightweight extension to for Frame Compatible Plano-Stereoscopic the graphics are always positioned in front the OpenGL model and allows reusing of 3DTV (DVB-3DTV). It defines 3D of the movie. Conceptually the graphics can existing OpenGL drawing code. extensions for video, signaling and subtitles be seen as being rendered on virtual planes, Conclusion to be able to transmit stereoscopic 3D which can be shifted along the z-axis via a GEM S3D complements the widely movies via broadcast. The DVB-GEM horizontal offset between the image for the deployed GEM middleware platform with a Profile for 3DTV (GEM S3D) Left and Right eye. new horizontal profile for stereoscopic 3D complements these specifications with The three new modes are using: (1) a applications.