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Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite (DVB-S) is the original DVB standard for satellite television and dates from 1995, in its first release, while development lasted from 1993 to 1997. The first commercial applications were by Canal+ in France [ citation needed ] and Galaxy in Australia, enabling digitally broadcast, satellite-delivered ...
The conversion process from DVB-S to DVB-S2 is being accelerated, due to the rapid increase of HDTV and introduction of 3D-HDTV. The main factor slowing down this process is the need to replace or upgrade set-top boxes, or acquire TVs with DVB-S2 integrated tuners, which makes the transition slower for established operators.
Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is a set of international open standards for digital television.DVB standards are maintained by the DVB Project, an international industry consortium, [1] and are published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) and European ...
DVB-S2X is an extension of DVB-S2 satellite digital broadcasting standard. It was standardized by DVB Project [ 1 ] in March 2014 as an optional extension of DVB-S2 standard. [ 2 ] It became an ETSI standard.
Also unlike DVB, all DSS receivers are proprietary DirecTV reception units. DirecTV is now using a modified version of DVB-S2 , the latest version of the DVB-S protocol, for HDTV services off the SPACEWAY-1 , SPACEWAY-2 , DirecTV-10 and DirecTV-11 [ 2 ] satellites; however, huge numbers of DSS encoded channels still remain.
Cable started broadcasting digital in 2001. Most cable companies switched off analogue in 2021. Satellite broadcasting switched to the digital standard in 1996 and to DVB-S2 around 2010. The last DVB-S channels were shut down in 2016. DVB-H was only available for a brief period between 2008 and 2011 in the bigger cities.
A Viewsat Xtreme FTA receiver. A free-to-air or FTA Receiver is a satellite television receiver designed to receive unencrypted broadcasts. Modern decoders are typically compliant with the MPEG-4/DVB-S2 standard and formerly the MPEG-2/DVB-S standard, while older FTA receivers relied on analog satellite transmissions which have declined rapidly in recent years.
In March 2006, DVB decided to study options for an upgraded DVB-T standard. In June 2006, a formal study group named TM-T2 (Technical Module on Next Generation DVB-T) was established by the DVB Group to develop an advanced modulation scheme that could be adopted by a second generation digital terrestrial television standard, to be named DVB-T2.