Appendix B ATSC Service Information
OCAP networks will use the ATSC Program and Service Information Protocol (PSIP) to carry information about the services and events on the network. This appendix provides an introduction to PSIP, and examines the format of the various PSIP tables we may find in an OCAP network. We will also examine how the use of PSIP in an OCAP system differs from PSIP in other types of networks.
Like SI in DVB, PSIP is an extension of the PSI found in all MPEG transport streams. In North America, the way signals are broadcast is slightly different from the way they are broadcast in countries that use the DVB system, and thus ATSC made some different choices in the format of this data. The result of this is that the two systems ...
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