The Digital Dividend of Terrestrial Broadcasting
The “digital revolution” of the last two decades has pervaded innumerable aspects of our daily lives and changed our planet irreversibly. The shift from analog to digital broadcasting has facilitated a seemingly infinite variety of new applications—audien
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Roland Beutler
The Digital Dividend of Terrestrial Broadcasting
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Roland Beutler S¨udwestrundfunk International Spectrum Management Neckarstrasse 230 70190 Stuttgart Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4614-1568-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-1569-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1569-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011941585 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Dedicated to Kai and Chris
Contents
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2 Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Digital Terrestrial Radio Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.1 The DAB-Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.2 Digital Radio Mondiale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.3 HD Radio.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Digital Terrestrial Television Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.1 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-T) .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.2 Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.3 Second Generation DVB (DVB-T2) .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.4 Next Generation Handheld DVB (DVB-NGH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.5 Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting (ISDB-T) . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.6 Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC) . . . . . . . . . . . .
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3 Management of the Electromagnetic Spectrum .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 International Organizations and Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.1 International Telecommunications Union (ITU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.2 European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.3 European Commission (EC) . . . . . . . . . . .
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