Chapter 1

Digital TV

Hassnaa Moustafa, Farhan Siddiqui, and Sherali Zeadally

Contents

1.1 Introduction

1.2 History and Current Status

1.3 Digital TV Market

1.3.1 Digital TV Deployment and Investment Trends Worldwide

1.3.2 IPTV Market

1.4 IPTV

1.5 IPTV Architecture Components and Different Standards

1.5.1 High-Level Functional Architecture of IPTV

1.5.2 Initiatives to Standardize IPTV

1.5.3 IPTV Operation

1.6 IPTV Services

1.6.1 Basic Channel Service

1.6.2 Enhanced Selective Services

1.6.3 Interactive Data Services

1.7 IPTV Deployment Challenges ...

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