2. Status and history of the DVB standard

This section presents elements relating to the DVB standard, which was initiated in 1993 and now includes more than 40 standardization groups.

The DVB standard contains the complete set of solutions needed to broadcast video content for different technologies (satellite, cable, radio). To avoid direct association between a physical layer transmission channel and a single TV channel, the solutions proposed by the standard enable the creation of a physical layer frame carrying a combination of multiple audio, video and multimedia data sources.

The DVB standard thus aims to define ETSI-compliant standards for the physical layers, with error correction methods specific to the technology used. The norms defined by the standard are presented in table 1 .