Address: Ancienne Route 17A
City: Grand-Saconnex, Geneva
Mail Code: CH-1218
Country: Switzerland
EMail: [email protected]
Programming: We are preparing programming
Transmission: We are preparing to transmit
terrestrial: terrestrial
cable: cable
other: other
Equipment: Preparing to make equipment
Consumer Equip: Consumer Equip
special: special venues
Our investment: over 100,000,000
Comments: DVB announces HDTV at 50- AND 60-Hz
Quotes on HDTV and DVB
The Digital
Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is a consortium of over 200 broadcasters,
manufacturers, network operators and regulatory bodies in more than 30 countries
worldwide, committed to designing a global standard for the delivery of digital
television.
Numerous broadcast services using DVB standards are now
operational, in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia.)
DVB standards, fully MPEG-2 compliant,
carry multiple channel digital SDTV or single channel HDTV.
"Even though the members of the Digital Video
Broadcasting project have not issued Commercial Requirements for HDTV, many
countries now considering the introduction of High Definition Television for
their markets want to adopt the DVB specifications. DVB has shown with its HDTV
demonstrations in Montreux this year that the DVB specifications have always
supported HDTV, and the DVB MPEG-2 Guidelines released in July confirm that."
Professor Ulrich Reimers, Chairman of the DVB
Technical Module:
"From day one the DVB Project has considered HDTV to
be a possible future application of the DVB transmission standards. Thus, all
system specifications have been created in such a way that they show
transparency with respect to the signals to be carried. Progressive or
Interlace, 50Hz, 60 Hz, 59,94 Hz, 24 Hz is not an issue for DVB.
The
principle of carrying 'Data Containers' or better 'Data Pipelines' filled by all
possible kinds of digital information up to a maximum of, say, 24 Mbit/s or 38
Mbit/s has always been maintained. And those data are transmitted practically
error-free."
Phillip Laven, Director of Technical Department,
European Broadcasting Union:
"Broadcasters throughout the world have recognised
that DVB has been very successful in delivering specifications which meet
detailed commercial requirements. Although there is little immediate interest in
HDTV in Europe, demonstrations of HDTV transmissions using DVB systems prove
that DVB is HDTV-ready and future-proof."
