Overview of Digital Television Development Worldwide

Author

Wu, Yiyan ; Hirakawa, Shuji ; Reimers, Ulrich H. ; Whitaker, Jerry

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Centre Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

94

Issue

1

fYear

2006

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

21

Abstract

This special issue of the proceedings of the IEEE presents a systematical and complete tutorial on digital television (DTV), produced by a team of DTV experts worldwide. This introductory paper puts the current DTV systems into perspective and explains the historical background and different evolution paths that each system took. The main focus is on terrestrial DTV systems, but satellite and cable DTV are also covered,as well as several other emerging services.

Keywords

digital television; Advanced Television Systems Committee; cable DTV; digital television development; digital video broadcasting; high definition TV; integrated services digital broadcasting; satellite DTV; terrestrial DTV systems; Cable TV; Communication standards; Data communication; Digital TV; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Digital video broadcasting; HDTV; Multiplexing; Satellite broadcasting; TV broadcasting; Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC); digital broadcasting; digital television (DTV); digital video broadcasting (DVB); high definition TV (HDTV); integrated services digital broadcasting (ISDB);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPROC.2005.861000

Filename

1566617