SEE STRATEGIC ROADMAP TO DIGITALIZATION Project: South-East European Digital Television Acronym: SEE Digi.TV Version R-1.1; Date: 10.07.2012 DOCUMENT HISTORY Version Status Date Author Comments Approved by R-1.1. 1st revision 10.07.2012 NCRT NCRT revision INFORMEST A-1.0 Approved 30.05.2012 Approved version Project manager (resp.) Strategic Roadmap to Digitalization / R-1.1 Page: 2/98 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 7 2 GENERAL OVERVIEW OF DTT IN THE “digi.TV” COUNTRIES ............................................... 8 2.1 DTT in Albania: ................................................................................................................... 9 2.2 DTT in Austria: .................................................................................................................. 10 2.3 DTT in Bosnia and Herzegovina: ...................................................................................... 11 2.4 DTT in Croatia: ................................................................................................................. 12 2.5 DTT in Hungary ................................................................................................................ 13 2.6 DTT in Italy ....................................................................................................................... 14 2.7 DTT in Macedonia: ........................................................................................................... 16 2.8 DTT in Montenegro: .......................................................................................................... 16 2.9 DTT in Serbia: .................................................................................................................. 17 2.10 DTT in Slovenia: ............................................................................................................... 18 2.11 DTT in France ................................................................................................................... 18 2.12 DTT in the U.K. ................................................................................................................. 20 2.13 CONCLUSION: ................................................................................................................. 24 3 OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND ROADMAP FOR SEE ...................................................... 25 3.1 Technology Drivers ........................................................................................................... 25 3.1.1 MPEG4 (H.264/MPEG-4) .......................................................................................... 26 3.1.2 DVB-T2 ...................................................................................................................... 27 3.1.3 STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING ................................................................................. 30 3.1.4 SFN ........................................................................................................................... 31 3.2 Digital Dividend as a major Objective................................................................................ 33 3.3 OBJECTIVES FOR EACH GROUP: ................................................................................. 34 3.4 Technology migration improvements ................................................................................ 34 3.5 STRATEGY FOR GROUP A ............................................................................................ 34 3.5.1 Group A: A gradual transition - Two Options ............................................................. 35 3.5.2 DIGITAL DIVIDEND ALLOCATION ........................................................................... 40 3.6 STRATEGY FOR GROUP B: ........................................................................................... 41 3.6.1 Group B: Speeding up the digitalization process, switch off, ...................................... 41 3.7 STRATEGY FOR GROUP C: ........................................................................................... 42 3.7.1 DTT Migration process: one-shot vs. phased approach ............................................ 42 3.7.2 DVB-T2 and MPEG-4 ................................................................................................ 43 Strategic Roadmap to Digitalization / R-1.1 Page: 3/98 3.7.3 CHANNEL SELECTION PROCEDURE ..................................................................... 43 3.7.4 NETWORK/MUX SELECTION PROCEDURE: .......................................................... 44 3.7.5 Other Measures to facilitate migration to DTT in GROUP C: ...................................... 45 3.7.6 TIMELINE FOR THE ROADMAP FOR ASO FOR GROUP C AND FOR THE SPEEDIG UP OF THE DIGITALIZATION PROCESS OF GROUP B ....................................... 46 1 ANNEX 1: Overview of New Technologies and Services ......................................................... 47 1.1 BROADCASTING ENHANCED FORMATS ...................................................................... 47 1.1.1 HDTV ........................................................................................................................ 47 1.1.2 UHDTV ...................................................................................................................... 48 1.1.3 3D TV ........................................................................................................................ 48 1.2 CONDITIONAL ACCESS SYSTEM, INTERACTIVE SERVICES ...................................... 51 1.2.1 CONDITIONAL ACCES SYSTEM ............................................................................. 51 1.2.2 Interactive services .................................................................................................... 53 1.2.3 MHP .......................................................................................................................... 54 1.2.4 MHEG-5 .................................................................................................................... 54 1.3 TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM EFFICIENCY: COMPRESSION, TRANSMISSION STANDARD, STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING, SFN .................................................................... 55 1.3.1 COMPRESSION ........................................................................................................ 55 1.3.2 TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUES ............................................................................... 58 1.3.3 Single Frequency Network (SFN) .............................................................................. 62 1.3.4 Generalities on optimisation of radio systems ............................................................ 64 1.3.5 Examples of radio planning optimisation .................................................................... 65 1.3.6 SFN Network Synchronization ................................................................................... 65 1.3.7 SFN Network Gain ..................................................................................................... 67 1.3.8 Transmission delay optimization for SFN Networks ................................................... 68 1.3.9 Conclusions ............................................................................................................... 70 1.4 DIGITAL DIVIDEND .......................................................................................................... 71 1.5 New services: Connected TV, Smart TV, Over the Top TV ............................................... 72 2 ANNEX 2: Strategies and Regulations to deploy digital broacasting technology in the EU ...... 74 2.1 Digital terrestrial television ................................................................................................ 74 2.2 Digital dividend - Spectrum ............................................................................................... 77 2.3 Interactivity and conditional access ................................................................................... 80 3 ANNEX 3 : NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES IN THE EU: .......................................... 83 3.1 Switch-off .......................................................................................................................... 83 Strategic Roadmap to Digitalization / R-1.1 Page: 4/98 3.2 Transition Strategies: ........................................................................................................ 83 3.3 Growth in the number of platforms and operators ............................................................. 85 3.4 Growth of technologies ..................................................................................................... 85 3.4.1 HD channels/MPEG-4 ............................................................................................... 85 3.4.2 3D TV ........................................................................................................................ 85 3.4.3 Interactivity ................................................................................................................ 86 3.4.4 DVB-T2 ...................................................................................................................... 87 3.4.5 SFN ........................................................................................................................... 90 3.4.6 HYBRID TELEVISION/OTT TV ................................................................................