DVB-T2
This system transmits compressed digital audio, video, and other data in "physical layer pipes" (PLPs), using OFDM modulation with concatenated channel coding and interleaving.
[6] According to the commercial requirements and call for technologies[7] issued in April 2007, the first phase of DVB-T2 would be devoted to provide optimum reception for stationary (fixed) and portable receivers (i.e., units which can be nomadic, but not fully mobile) using existing aerials, whereas a second and third phase would study methods to deliver higher payloads (with new aerials) and the mobile reception issue.
Other manufacturers planning DVB-T2 equipment launches include Alitronika, CellMetric, Cisco, Digital TV Labs, Humax, NXP Semiconductors, Panasonic, ProTelevision Technologies, Screen Service, SIDSA, Sony, ST Microelectronics and T-VIPS.
[citation needed] Many tests broadcast transmission using this standard are being in process in France, with local Gap filler near Rennes CCETT.
DVB-T2 was tested in October 2010, in Geneva region, with Mont Salève's repeater, in UHF band on Channel 36.
A mobile van was testing BER, strength, and quality reception, with special PCs used as spectrum analysers, constellation testers.
[22] Recommended maximum bit-rate configurations for 8 MHz bandwidth, 32K FFT, guard interval 1/128, pilot pattern 7:[23] The processing workflow is as follows: When the digital terrestrial HDTV service Freeview HD was launched in December 2009, it was the first DVB-T2 service intended for the general public.
Among countries using DVB-T for nationwide broadcasts of HDTV are France, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Spain, and Taiwan.
The infrastructure in six more provinces (Herat, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar, Ghazni, Kunduz) had been built out, without transmitter installation.
In July 2011, "DigitAlb" started DVB-T2 broadcasting in Durrës, Tirana on UHF with 29 channels (26 HD, 3 in SD).
Due to the country's topography as well as there being no sharing of masts between the public and private broadcasters, the coverage in rural areas is patchy.
[64][65] In 2020, there was tested Nasa TV in 4K resolution to show that the DVB T2 system is capable of 4K and the devices can decode it.
Finland, the first country in Europe to cease analog terrestrial TV and move to DVB-T, launched DVB-T2 fully in November 2024 and DVB-T2 will be used exclusively from June 2025.
[32] Digital Terrestrial Television services to provide mobile TV at 19 cities[66] e.g. Pitampura(Delhi)(578.00 MHz; UHF ch.
27), Kolkata, Chennai, Guwahati, Patna, Ranchi, Cuttack, Lucknow, Jallandhar, Raipur, Indore, Aurangabad, Bhopal, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Trivandrum and Srinagar were started on 25 February 2016.
The TV broadcasters still testing their DVB-T broadcasts agreed to join the DVB-T2 conversion programme offered by the government since they saw the significant benefits by switching to DVB-T2 (such as higher data rate for HD content and better carrier-to-noise ratio management), even though it would introduce additional cost for those who have bought DVB-T equipment.
[67] The Indonesian Ministry of Information & Communication Technology expects the final DVB-T2 digital television regulation to be finished in 2020 and the analogue switch off transition will begin in the same year.
The DVB-T test concluded in 2016 and at the same time license to roll out DVB-T2 transmitters was contracted to Puncak Semangat Sdn.
[72] KPN started to switch its digital terrestrial television platform Digitenne to the DVB-T2 HEVC standard in October 2018,[73] this transition completed on 9 July 2019.
One of the reasons was that most Romanian consumers already extensively used either cable or satellite services, which developed very quickly and became very popular after 1990.
In fact, a technological boom started around 2003, driven by a solid economical development in the field of telecommunications, made several private operators create large networks of fiber optics and cable covering all of Romania, which are now used for providing both TV, telephony, and high quality broadband internet.
On 17 June 2015, analogue terrestrial television was switched off, with the exception of the main public TV program (TVR1) which will continue to be broadcast strictly in the VHF band until the end of 2016.
In September 2011, Russian governmental authorities have approved the decision that since this date all newly built terrestrial digital TV networks will use the DVB-T2 standard.
[84] On 14 November 2013 JP ETV has updated initial network for digital terrestrial television, and now DVB-T2 signal is available to over 90 percent of the population of Serbia.
MediaCorp TV Mobile was the first channel in the world to pioneer the use of Digital Video Broadcast (DVB-T) technology to deliver television programmes to commuters in public transport such as buses, taxi etc.
It was ceased transmission in 2010, a small-scale trial of DVB-T was carried on by the state-owned Mediacorp (which holds a monopoly on free-to-air broadcasting in the country) and pay television provider StarHub, Singapore announced in June 2012 that it would adopt DVB-T2 instead as its digital terrestrial television standard, determining that it was best-suited for Singapore's urban environment.
[2] On 25 January 2013, The Royal Thai Army Radio and Television station, Channel 5, has launched a trial DVB-T2 service.
[95] It has successfully completed Thailand's first DVB-T2 digital terrestrial TV trial with the help of Harris and one of its Maxiva UAX air-cooled UHF transmitters.
Ukraine's national terrestrial TV network (built and maintained by the Zeonbud company) uses the DVB-T2 standard for all four nationwide FTV (cardless CAS "Irdeto Cloaked CA") multiplexes, for both SD and HD broadcasts.
[105] As of 11 November 2011, two DVB-T2 SFN networks of the Audio Visual Global JSC have been officially launched in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city.
