Today, mobile phone or other handheld device owners expect also receiving and watching a TV stream besides the classical voice or text services. The Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite services to Handheld (DVB-SH) is designed to transport mobile TV services. It also supports a wide range of mobile multimedia services, e.g. audio and data broadcast as well as file download services [1], [2].

A Digital TV system is necessary for not only video and audio, but also data processing. Especially in the case of bidirectional broadcasting, it should manage the return channel created by the Internet, PSTN, and so on. Because of many functionalities and multitasking jobs, it needs an Operating System. Embedded Linux, as open source program can increase cost effectiveness in the market and ha...

We introduce a newsgathering system that features high mobility and wide-area coverage: Mobile Broadcasting Video (MBV) system. According to the original design concept, this system’s transmission channels provide increased mobility and wide area coverage, utilizing wireless LAN and low-orbit satellite technology. Also this system provides audiovisual quality that is comparable to current digit...

The new generation of television viewers is currently being confronted and becoming acquainted with a series of technological developments in the realm of consumer electronics and gaming that raise their expectations for similar advances in TV broadcasts. The MELISA platform aims at the cross-media broadcasting of sports events featuring interactive advertising and sports-related games over dig...

ISDB-T International standard is currently adopted by most Latin America countries and is already installed in most TV sets sold in recent years in the region. To support interactive applications in Digital TV receivers, ISDBT defines the middleware Ginga and its declarative language NCL (Nested Context Language). Similar to Digital TV, Digital Radio standards also provide the means to carry in...

This paper deals with the latest digital TV standard DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting Satellite to Handhelds) with focus on utilization of its advantages for the next generation of mobile TV broadcasting. The whole paper consists of two parts. In this first part, after the brief introduction to DVB-SH and related last works review, the simulation model of DVB-SH-A, which is using terrestrial ...

Since the first trials of a series inventions leading to invention television, medium has undergone continuous development and transformation taken its current form. Television continues change today, with user needs new effects in different communication technologies. In light these developments, digital broadcasting by experiencing convergence between internet television; It gave birth concep...