Gordon AndersonTechnical TrainingTandberg Television Ltd
2.12 DVB Standards
The European Launching Group (ELG) was formed in 1991 to set a digital TV broadcasting standard following the growing realisation that analogue HDTV would not be a commercially successful proposition. ELG, in turn, created the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Project in September 1993.
DVB specifications originally only applied to European broadcasters, but have now become de facto standards in many other parts of the world. Interoperability between equipment from different vendors was uncertain in the early days of digital compression (1995–1997), but a DVB-S modulator was virtually guaranteed to work with a DVB-S receiver, especially after the Intelsat Satellite ...
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