Digital video broadcasting - terrestrial : design, streaming and application

• Main Author: Lee, Edmund Wee Kuan.
• Other Authors: Chau Lap Pui
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/53296
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is a set of globally accepted open standards for digital television. It is currently being adopted by many countries over the world as the standard for broadcasting of digital television. Compared with the traditional analog broadcasting, it can offer a far more superior image and sound quality to the consumers. The analog broadcasting is gradually being replaced by the new digital broadcasting as the way of television broadcasting. Currently, there is an ongoing process termed “Digital Television Transition” that aims to completely replace the analog broadcasting in different countries with digital broadcasting within a certain timeline. Digital Video Broadcasting distributes the television signals using a variety of standards. Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial (DVB-T) is one of the DVB standards and has been further developed into two newer standards like Digital Video Broadcasting – Handheld (DVB-H) and Digital Video Broadcasting – Second Generation Terrestrial (DVB-T2). Currently, Mediacorp broadcasts its Channel 5, 8, Channel News Asia and HD5 via the DVB-T standard. This project will seek to receive the HD5 signal using the Hauppauge TV USB Stick at the server side and transmit it over the Wifi to the client side. It was announced that by the end of 2013, Singapore’s free-to-air TV channels will be broadcasted using DVB-T2 and by 2020, Singapore will switch over fully from analog to digital TV.