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.
