* DVB-S TR 101 198 V1. 1. 1 ( 09 / 97 ) Implementation of Binary Phase Shift Keying ( BPSK ) modulation in DVB satellite transmission systems

Satellite transmission ( DVB-S ) in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia is operated by Airfield Belgium or Digidream.

* The introduction of affordable, smaller satellite dishes and the DVB-S standard in the mid-1990s expanded satellite television services that carried up to 500 television channels.

For example, RS codes are used in the digital video broadcasting ( DVB ) standard DVB-S, but LDPC codes are used in its successor DVB-S2.

In Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, a Flemish Discovery Channel launched ( previously the Dutch version was available for IPTV, DVB-C and DVB-S ) on Cable ( and digital ) Television on October 1, 2009.

While these services are at least theoretically based on open standards ( DVB-S, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ), the majority of services are encrypted and require proprietary decoder hardware.

DVB-S ( SHF ) uses QPSK, 8PSK or 16-QAM.

DVB-S and DVB-C were ratified in 1994.

In Hong Kong, several cable TV operators such as TVB Pay Vision and Cable TV have already started using DVB-S or DVB-C.

In Malaysia, a new Pay-TV station MiTV began service in September 2005 using DVB-IPTV technology while lone satellite programming provider ASTRO has been transmitting in DVB-S since its inception in 1996.

In the Philippines, DVB-S and DVB-S2 are the two broadcast standards currently used by satellite companies, while DVB-C is also used by some cable companies.

All satellite programming ( some of which is available free-to-air via Freesat or free-to-view via Freesat from Sky ; the remainder requires a subscription to Sky ), is broadcast using either DVB-S or DVB-S2.

In North America, DVB-S is often used in encoding and video compression of digital satellite communications alongside Hughes DSS.

SD MPEG-2 DVB-S broadcasts via satellite began on 2 May 2007 and DVB-T ( terrestrial ) broadcasts began April 2008 broadcasting in HD H. 264 video with HE-AAC audio.

RTÉ Two is available throughout Ireland through digital terrestrial service Saorview, VHF and UHF bands, and is also available via satellite ( DVB-S ) to Irish subscribers of Sky.

DVB-S is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Satellite ; it is the original Digital Video Broadcasting Forward error correction and demodulation standard for Satellite Television and dates from 1994, in its first release, while development lasted from 1993 to 1997.

DVB-S is used in both Multiple Channel Per Carrier ( MCPC ) and Single channel per carrier modes for Broadcast Network feeds as well as for Direct Broadcast Satellite services like Sky ( UK & Ireland ) via Astra in Europe, Dish Network and Globecast in the U. S. and Bell TV in Canada.

This is now mostly superseded by digital TV ( usually DVB-S, DVB-S2 or another MPEG-2-based system ), where audio and video data are packaged together ( multiplexed ) in a single MPEG transport stream.

The units are DVB-S compatible, and usually carry the DVB logo on the front.

Their satellite broadcasts can be received from the Thor 5 and Thor 6 satellites at 1 ° W with any DVB-S Receiver Equipped with a Conax Descrambling Module.

OpenTV 2. x software technology contains a hardware abstraction layer to enable hardware independence, TV libraries, a broadcast stack ( DVB-T / DVB-C / DVB-S, ISDB, ATSC ...), a selection of application execution environments, and Personal Video Recorders ( PVRs ) to create a digital television environment for set-top box.

Despite these efforts to secure their programming, a software hack was released in late August, 2005, allowing for the decryption of the new Nagravision 2 channels with a DVB-S card and a PC.

It includes a broadcast and service information ( SI ) stack ( DVB-T / DVB-C / DVB-S, ISDB ) with an advanced digital video recorder ( DVR ) and home networking module ( Digital Living Network Alliance-DLNA ) for sharing media content across the home, while enabling adaptive Internet video adaptive bitrate streaming capabilities ( Progressive download, HTTP Live Streaming, Microsoft Smooth Streaming ).

There is little or no free Canadian DVB-S content available to users of medium-size dishes as much of the available Ku-band satellite bandwidth is occupied by pay-TV operators Shaw Direct and Bell TV, although larger dishes ( over 3 feet / 90 cm ) can pick up some content.

An Integrated Digital Television ( IDTV or iDTV ) set is a television set with a built in digital tuner, be it for DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C, DMB-T / H, ATSC or ISDB.

More complex transmissions likePAL / NTSC ( TV ), DAB ( digital radio ), DVB-T / DVB-S / DVB-C ( digital TV ) etc.

Tri-mode means support for analogue terrestrial / cable, digital terrestrial and DVB-S digital satellite.

The free-to-view system contrasts with free-to-air ( FTA ), in which signals are sent unencrypted and are available for all to see with any DVB-S / S2 decoder.

* TV / Radio ( DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-T, DVB-C, Analog television ( Common Interface, DVB radio, DVB EPG, Teletext, etc ...)

BBC Red Button is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cable ( DVB-C ), IPTV ( TalkTalk TV – channel 503, no red button or teletext ), digital satellite ( DVB-S ) ( Sky & Freesat ) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ) ( Freeview ).

Although satellite ( DVB-S ) broadcasting was initially considered, it was discarded due to the high cost of uploading the channel stream into satellites.

ČT3 will be children's and educational channel broadcasted by DVB-T, DVB-S and by Cable TV.

The channel was seen by European viewers with a DVB-S satellite receiver across Europe.

In late 2004 German channel group ProSieben showed a BBC documentary and a self produced TV movie in 1080i via MPEG-2 DVB-S, followed by the Hollywood films Spider-Man and Men in Black II in March 2005.

However, their use as a DVB-S receiver for anything other than Sky services is seriously limited by their reduced choice of symbol rates ( 22, 000 and 27, 500 ; additionally 28, 250 and 29, 000 on Sky + HD ), and their inability to store more than 50 ( fewer still on some models ) non-EPG channels without losing them.

After broadcast TV switched to all digital, new channels became available on unencrypted satellites to bring more free TV to Americans some of these are available as a digital subchannel to local broadcasters, this reason may be for the expensive costs of the DVB-S equipment.

( This is different from the worldwide DVB-SH standard, which is derived from the DVB-S standard that Dish Network has used for DBS since the 1990s.

Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite-Second Generation ( DVB-S2 ) is a digital television broadcast standard that has been designed as a successor for the popular DVB-S system.

The standard is based on, and improves upon DVB-S and the electronic news-gathering ( or Digital Satellite News Gathering ) system, used by mobile units for sending sounds and images from remote locations world-wide back to their home television stations.

* Backward compatibility to DVB-S, intended for end users, and DVB-DSNG, used for backhauls and electronic news gathering.

* Hello HD ( also uses DVB-S for some SD and HD channels )

DVB-S is being used for transmissions via NSS-6

* Astro in Malasia ( currently only for HD channels ; uses DVB-S for backwards compatibility with SD channels ).

EUMETCast uses the DVB-S MPEG2 stream for encapsulating IP frames ( IP over DVB ).

tvtime is a program for Linux that allows a person to watch television through his or her PC using a TV tuner or a satellite receiver card DVB-S.