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

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 ).

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.

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.

It is also widely used by streaming internet sources, such as videos from Vimeo, YouTube, and the iTunes Store, web software such as the Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight, and also various HDTV broadcasts over terrestrial ( ATSC, ISDB-T, DVB-T or DVB-T2 ), cable ( DVB-C ) and satellite ( DVB-S and DVB-S2 ).

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.

While the actual DVB-S standard only specifies physical link characteristics and framing, the overlaid transport stream delivered by DVB-S is mandated as MPEG-2, known as MPEG transport stream ( MPEG-TS ).

This is now mostly superseded by digital TV ( usually DVB-S, DVB-S2 or another MPEG-2-based system ), where audio and video data are packaged together ( multiplexed ) in a single MPEG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

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.

Freeview's terrestrial service, Freeview UHF aerial, is a high definition digital terrestrial television service available to 75 percent of the country's population, using DVB-S and DVB-T standards on government provided spectrum.

( 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.

The European-developed DVB-S standard is the most commonly used broadcast method.

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.

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.

The measured DVB-S2 performance gain over DVB-S is around 30 % at the same satellite transponder bandwidth and emitted signal power.

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.

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

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

A standard DVB-S or DVB-S2 receiver is used, which can also receive other free-to-air broadcasts.

Tiresias is the font used in subtitles for digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ), and digital satellite ( DVB-S ) targeting the UK.

Prior to May 2012, most of the 30 + TV stations broadcast their satellite signal using both analogue and digital ( DVB-S ); however, all analogue satellite broadcasts ceased on 30 April 2012.

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.

* DVB-S EN 300 421 V1. 1. 2 ( 08 / 97 ) Framing structure, channel coding and modulation for 11 / 12 GHz satellite services

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.

Recent experiments have been done with digital modes following widely-adopted DVB-S and DVB-T standards.

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.

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.

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 ).

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.