DVBStandards

DVBStandards refer to the suite of digital television broadcasting specifications developed by the DVB Project, an international industry consortium formed in 1993 to create interoperable standards for digital video and audio delivery. DVB standards define how content is encoded, modulated, transmitted, and received across different delivery platforms, including terrestrial, satellite, and cable networks, and may also cover signaling, conditional access, and service information.

The standards are designed to enable interoperability among equipment from different manufacturers and across countries. They align with and often reuse MPEG formats (such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4/AVC, and HEVC) and specify the modulation and error-correction schemes, multiplexing, and carriage of metadata and interactive features.

Key DVB standards include DVB-S and the more efficient DVB-S2 and its further extension DVB-S2X for satellite delivery; DVB-T and the highly efficient DVB-T2 for terrestrial DTT; and DVB-C for cable, with DVB-C2 as a next-generation option. Additional areas cover service information (DVB-SI), conditional access (DVB-CA), and interactive or hybrid services such as the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) and other related profiles.

DVB standards are published as DVB specifications and, in many cases, are adopted as European EN standards through collaboration with ETSI. They have seen widespread deployment worldwide, underpinning digital television reception, from set-top boxes to integrated receivers, and enabling standardized signaling, access control, and content carriage.

Ongoing DVB activities continue to refine existing specifications and develop new ones to address evolving delivery scenarios, including hybrid broadcast/broadband services and higher efficiency codecs and modulators.