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Since its conception in 1993, the DVB Project has proven the value and viability of pre-competitive cooperation in the development of open digital television standards. DVB’s open standards guarantee fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions with regard to Intellectual Property Rights, allowing them to be freely adopted and utilised worldwide.

Market-led
Truly market-led, the DVB Project works to strict commercial requirements established by organisations who work every day to meet its needs. This allows for considerable economies of scale and ensures that, its Members and finally the viewing public will benefit in the transformation to digital television.

Interoperable
Open standards guarantee that compliant systems will be able to work together, independent of which manufacturer provided the equipment. Designed with a maximum amount of commonality and based on the MPEG-2 coding system, DVB signals may be effortlessly carried from one medium to another, a frequent need in today's complex signal distribution environment.

Flexible
DVB delivers virtually any digital to the home. Whether it’s High Definition TV, multiple channel Standard definition TV (PAL, NTSC or SECAM) or new broadband multimedia content and interactive services, DVB delivers owing to the use of MPEG-2 packets as "data containers", and the critical DVB Service Information surrounding and identifying those packets.

Innovative IPR
Central to the DVB Project is a commitment to making Intellectual Propery Rights available on on terms which are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory. DVB's IPR policy is designed to protect the interests of those with IPR to license, alongside those who are licensing the IPR in order to deploy products and services in the market place.

Worldwide Adoption
DVB’s main transmission standards, DVB-S for Satellite, DVB-C for Cable and DVB-T for terrestrial, dominate the world and are the basis for most of the alternative standards. Our Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) standard is fast on its way to reach the same status for digital interactive television middleware.


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