Introduction............................................................................................1 2 Analog Television....................................................................................7 2.1 Scanning an Original Black/White Picture.....................................10 2.2 Horizontal and Vertical Synchronization Pulses ............................12 2.3 Adding the Color Information ........................................................14 2.4 TransmissionMethods....................................................................17 2.5 Distortion and Interference .............................................................18 2.6 Signals in the VerticalBlanking Interval........................................20 2.7 Measurements on Analog Video Signals........................................24 2.8 Analog and Digital TV in a Broadband Cable Network.................29 3 The MPEG Data Stream ......................................................................31 3.1 The Packetized Elementary Stream (PES)......................................35 3.2 The MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packet ..........................................38 3.3 Information for the Receiver...........................................................42 3.3.1 Synchronizing to the Transport Stream ...................................43 3.3.2 Reading out the Current Program Structure ............................44 3.3.3 Accessing a Program ...............................................................46 3.3.4 Accessing Scrambled Programs ..............................................46 3.3.5 Program Synchronization (PCR, DTS, PTS)...........................48 3.3.6 Additional Information inthe Transport Stream .....................51 3.3.7 Non-Private and Private Sections and Tables..........................52 3.3.8 The Service Information according to DVB (SI).....................60 3.4 The PSIP according to the ATSC ...................................................73 3.5 ARIB Tables according to ISDB-T ................................................76 3.6 DTMB (China) Tables....................................................................78 3.7 Other Important Details of the MPEG-2 Transport Stream............78 3.7.1 The Transport Priority .............................................................78 3.7.2 The Transport Scrambling Control Bits ..................................79 3.7.3 The Adaptation Field Control Bits ..........................................79 3.7.4 The Continuity Counter ...........................................................80 XVIII Table of Contents 4 Digital Video Signal According to ITU-BT.R.601 (CCIR 601).........81 5 High Definition Television – HDTV ....................................................87 6 Transforms to and from the Frequency Domain ...............................93 6.1 The Fourier Transform ...................................................................95 6.2 The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) ..........................................97 6.3 The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) .................................................99 6.4 Implementation and Practical Applications of DFT and FFT.......101 6.5 The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) ........................................101 6.6 Time Domain Signals and their Transforms in the Frequency Domain ...............................................................................................105 6.7 Systematic Errors in DFT or FFT, and How to Prevent them ......107 6.8 Window Functions........................................................................110 7 MPEG-2 Video Coding.......................................................................111 7.1 Video Compression ......................................................................111 7.1.1 Reducing the Quantization from 10 Bits to 8 ........................115 7.1.2 Omitting the Horizontal and Vertical Blanking Intervals......115 7.1.3 Reduction in Vertical Color Resolution (4:2:0).....................116 7.1.4 Further Data Reduction Steps................................................117 7.1.5 Differential Pulse Code Modulation of Moving Pictures ......118 7.1.6 Discrete Cosine Transform Followed by Quantization .........123 7.1.7 Zig-Zag Scanning with Run-Length Coding ........................................................................131 7.1.8 Huffman Coding ....................................................................131 7.2 Summary.......................................................................................132 7.3 Structure of the Video Elementary Stream...................................136 7.4 More Recent Video Compression Methods..................................137 7.5 MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding ...............................................138 8 Compression of Audio Signals to MPEG and Dolby Digital...........147 8.1 Digital Audio Source Signal.........................................................147 8.2 History of Audio Coding ..............................................................148 8.3 Psychoacoustic Model of the Human Ear.....................................151 8.4 Basic Principles of Audio Coding ................................................155 8.5 Subband Coding in Accordance with MPEG Layer I, II ..............157 8.6 Transform Coding for MPEG Layer III and Dolby Digital..........159 8.7 Multichannel Sound......................................................................161 8.8 New Developments - MPEG-4 .....................................................162 9 Teletext, Subtitles and VPS for DVB ................................................165 ofZeroSequences . . Table of Contents XIX 9.1 Teletext and Subtitles ...................................................................165 9.2 Video Program System.................................................................169 9.3 WSS – Wide Screen Signalling ....................................................171 9.4 Practical examples ........................................................................173 10 A Comparison of Digital Video Standards .....................................175 10.1 MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, VCD and DVD, M-JPEG and MiniDV/DV........................................................................................175 10.2 MPEG-3, MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 .............................178 10.3 Physical Interfaces for Digital Video Signals.............................182 10.3.1 Parallel and Serial CCIR 601...............................................182 10.3.2 Synchronous Parallel Transport Stream Interface ...............184 10.3.3 Asynchronous Serial Transport Stream Interface (TS ASI) 185 10.3.4 SMPTE 310 Interface .........................................................186 10.3.5 DVI Interface......................................................................186 10.3.6 HDMI Interface ..................................................................187 10.3.7 HD-SDI Interface ...............................................................188 10.3.8 Gigabit Ethernet Interface as Transport Stream Distributor188 11 Measurements on the MPEG-2 Transport Stream........................189 11.1 Loss of Synchronisation (TS_sync_loss)....................................191 11.2 Errored Sync Bytes (sync_byte_error) .......................................192 11.3 Missing or Errored Program Association Table (PAT) ..............192 11.4 Missing or Errored Program Map Table (PMT) (PMT_error) ...193 11.5 The PID_Error ............................................................................194 11.6 The Continuity_Count_Error......................................................195 11.7 The Transport_Error (Priority 2) ................................................196 11.8 The Cyclic Redundancy Check Error .........................................197 11.9 The Program Clock Reference Error ..........................................197 11.10 The Presentation Time Stamp Error (PTS_Error) ....................199 11.11 The Conditional Access Table Error (CAT_Error) ..................200 11.12 Service Information Repetition Rate Error ...............................201 11.13 Monitoring the NIT, SDT, EIT, RST and TDT/TOT Tables....202 11.14 Undefined PIDs (Unreferenced_PID).......................................202 11.15 Errors in the Transmission of Additional Service Information 203 11.16 Faulty tables NIT_other_error, SDT_other_error, EIT_other_error ..................................................................................204 11.17 Monitoring an ATSC-Compliant MPEG-2 Transport Stream..204 12 Picture Quality Analysis of Digital TV Signals ..............................207 12.1 Methods for Measuring Video Quality.......................................209 12.1.1 Subjective Picture Quality Analysis ....................................210 XX Table of Contents 12.1.2 Double Stimulus Continual Quality Scale Method DSCQS 211 12.1.3 Single Stimulus Continual Quality Evaluation Method SSCQE............................................................................................211 12.2 Objective Picture Quality Analysis.............................................211 12.3 Summary and Outlook...............................................................217 13 Basic Principles of Digital Modulation ...........................................219 13.1 Introduction.................................................................................219 13.2 Mixer...........................................................................................221 13.3 Amplitude Modulator .................................................................223 13.4 IQ Modulator ..............................................................................225 13.5 The IQ Demodulator...................................................................233 13.6 Use of the Hilbert transform in IQ modulation...........................238 13.7 Practical Applications of the Hilbert Transform.........................240 13.8 Channel Coding/ForwardError Correction ................................242 13.9 A Comparison to Analog Modulation Methods.........................246 13.9.1 Amplitude Modulation .......................................................247 13.9.2 Variants of Amplitude Modulation.....................................251 13.9.3 Frequency Modulation........................................................252 13.9.4 Phase Modulation ...............................................................255 13.10 Band Limiting of Modulated Carrier Signals ..........................256 13.11 Summary..................................................................................259 14 Transmitting Digital Television Signals by Satellite - DVB-S/S2 261 14.1 The DVB-S System Parameters..................................................264 14.2 The DVB-S Modulator ...............................................................266 14.3 Convolutional Coding.................................................................272 14.4 Signal Processing in the Satellite................................................277 14.5 The DVB-S Receiver ..................................................................278 14.6 Influences Affecting the Satellite Transmission Link ................281 14.7 DVB-S2 ......................................................................................285 15 DVB-S/S2 Measuring Technology ...................................................293 15.1 Introduction.................................................................................293 15.2 Measuring Bit Error Ratios.........................................................293 15.3 Measurements on DVB-S Signals using a Spectrum Analyzer ..296 15.3.1 Approximate Determination of the Noise Power N.............298 15.3.2 C/N, S/N and Eb/N0.............................................................299 15.3.3 Finding the EB/N0 Ratio .......................................................300 15.4 Modulation Error Ratio (MER) ..................................................301 15.5 Measuring the Shoulder Attenuation ..........................................302 15.6 DVB-S/S2 Receiver Test............................................................303 Table of Contents XXI 16 Broadband Cable Transmission According to DVB-C .................305 16.1 The DVB-C Standard .................................................................306 16.2 The DVB-C Modulator...............................................................308 16.3 The DVB-C Receiver .................................................................309 16.4 Interference Effects on the DVB-C Transmission Link .............310 17 Broadband Cable Transmission According to ITU-T J83B (US)315 17.1 J83B Transmission Parameters...................................................317 17.2 J83B Baseband Input Signals .....................................................318 17.3 Forward Error Correction ...........................................................318 17.4 Calculation of the Net Data Rate...............................................320 17.5 Roll-off Filtering.........................................................................321 17.6 Fall-off-the-Cliff .........................................................................321 18 Measuring Digital TV Signals in the Broadband Cable................325 18.1 DVB-C/J83A, B, C Test Receivers with Constellation Analysis326 18.2 Detecting Interference Effects Using Constellation Analysis.....330 18.2.1 Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN)...........................330 18.2.2 Phase Jitter...........................................................................333 18.2.3 Sinusoidal Interferer ............................................................334 18.2.4 Effects of the I/Q Modulator................................................334 18.2.5 Modulation Error Ratio (MER) ...........................................337 18.2.6 Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) ..........................................339 18.3 Measuring the Bit Error Ratio (BER) .........................................339 18.4 Using a Spectrum Analyzer for Measuring DVB-C Signals ......340 18.5 Measuring the Shoulder Attenuation ..........................................342 18.6 Measuring the Ripple orTilt in the Channel ..............................343 18.7 DVB-C/J83A,B,C Receiver Test................................................343 19 Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (COFDM) ......345 19.1 Why Multi-Carrier? ....................................................................347 19.2 What is COFDM?.......................................................................350 19.3 Generating the COFDM Symbols...............................................354 19.4 Supplementary Signals in the COFDM Spectrum......................364 19.5 Hierarchical Modulation .............................................................366 19.6 Summary.....................................................................................367 20 Terrestrial Transmission of Digital Television Signals (DVB-T) 369 20.1 The DVB-T Standard..................................................................371 20.2 The DVB-T Carriers ...................................................................373 20.3 Hierarchical Modulation .............................................................379 XXII Table of Contents 20.4 DVB-T System Parameters of the 8/7/6 MHz Channel..............381 20.5 The DVB-T Modulator and Transmitter.....................................390 20.6 The DVB-T Receiver..................................................................393 20.7 Interference on the DVB-T Transmission Link and its Effects ..398 20.8 DVB-T Single-Frequency Networks (SFN) ...............................406 20.9 Minimum Receiver Input Level Required with DVB-T.............414 21 Measuring DVB-T Signals ...............................................................421 21.1 Measuring the Bit Error Ratio ....................................................423 21.2 Measuring DVB-T Signals Using a Spectrum Analyzer ...........425 21.3 Constellation Analysis of DVB-T Signals..................................429 21.3.1 Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN)...........................430 21.3.2 Phase Jitter...........................................................................430 21.3.3 Interference Sources ............................................................430 21.3.4 Echoes, Multipath Reception...............................................431 21.3.5 Doppler Effect .....................................................................431 21.3.6 I/Q Errors of the Modulator.................................................431 21.3.7 Cause and Effect of I/Q Errors in DVB-T ...........................435 21.4 Measuring the Crest Factor.........................................................444 21.5 Measuring the Amplitude, Phase and Group Delay Response ...444 21.6 Measuring the Impulse Response ...............................................445 21.7 Measuring the Shoulder Attenuation ..........................................446 22 DVB-H/DVB-SH - Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds ....451 22.1 Introduction.................................................................................451 22.2 Convergence between Mobile Radio and Broadcasting .............453 22.3 Essential Parameters of DVB-H .................................................454 22.4 DSM-CC Sections ......................................................................455 22.5 Multiprotocol Encapsulation.......................................................457 22.6 DVB-H Standard ........................................................................458 22.7 Summary.....................................................................................462 22.8 DVB-SH ....................................................................................464 23 Digital Terrestrial TV to North American ATSC Standard.........467 23.1 The 8VSB Modulator .................................................................472 23.2 8VSB Gross Data Rate and Net Data Rate .................................480 23.3 The ATSC Receiver....................................................................482 23.4 Causes of Interference on the ATSC Transmission Path............482 23.5 ATSC-M/H Mobile DTV............................................................483 23.5.1 Compatibility with the Existing Frame Structure................483 23.5.2 MPEG-4 Video and Audio Streaming.................................485 23.5.3 ATSC M/H Multiplexer.......................................................487 Table of Contents XXIII 23.5.4 ATSC M/H Modulator.........................................................490 23.5.5 Forming Single Frequency Networks..................................490 23.5.6 Summary..............................................................................491 23.6 Closed Captioning ......................................................................492 23.7 Analog Switch-off ......................................................................493 24 ATSC/8VSB Measurements.............................................................495 24.1 Bit Error Ratio (BER) Measurement ..........................................495 24.2 8VSB Measurements Using a Spectrum Analyzer .....................496 24.3 Constellation Analysis on 8VSB Signals....................................497 24.4 Measuring Amplitude Response and Group Delay Response ....500 25 Digital Terrestrial Television according to ISDB-T.......................503 25.1 Introduction.................................................................................503 25.2 ISDB-T Concept .........................................................................504 25.1 Forming Layers...........................................................................506 25.2 Baseband Encoding ....................................................................507 25.3 Changes in the Transport Stream Structure ................................507 25.4 Channel Tables ...........................................................................509 25.5 Performance of ISDB-T..............................................................510 25.6 Other ISDB Standards ................................................................511 25.7 ISDB-T measurements................................................................512 25.8 Summary.....................................................................................513 26 Digital Audio Broadcasting - DAB ..................................................515 26.1 Comparing DAB and DVB.........................................................517 26.2 An Overview of DAB.................................................................520 26.3 The Physical Layer of DAB........................................................525 26.4 DAB – Forward Error Correction...............................................537 26.5 DAB Modulator and Transmitter................................................542 26.6 DAB Data Structure....................................................................546 26.7 DAB Single-Frequency Networks ..............................................551 26.8 DAB Data Broadcasting .............................................................553 26.9 DAB+..........................................................................................554 26.10 DAB Measuring Technology....................................................554 26.10.1 Testing DAB Receivers....................................................555 26.10.2 Measuring the DAB Signal...............................................555 27 DVB Data Services: MHP and SSU ................................................559 27.1 Data Broadcasting in DVB .........................................................560 27.2 Object Carousels.........................................................................561 27.3 The Multimedia HomePlatform MHP .......................................563 XXIV Table of Contents 27.4 System Software Update SSU ....................................................565 28 T-DMB ...............................................................................................567 29 IPTV – Television over the Internet................................................569 29.1 DVB-IP .......................................................................................571 29.2 IP Interface Replaces TS-ASI.....................................................572 29.3 Summary.....................................................................................573 30 DRM – Digital Radio Mondiale.......................................................575 30.1 Audio source encoding ..............................................................579 30.2 Forward Error Correction ...........................................................579 30.3 Modulation Method ....................................................................580 30.4 Frame structure ...........................................................................581 30.5 Interference on the transmission link..........................................582 30.6 DRM data rates ...........................................................................583 30.7 DRM transmitting stationsand DRM receivers..........................584 30.8 DRM+........................................................................................585 31 Digital Terrestrial TV Networks in Practice ..................................587 31.1 The DVB-T SFNs Southern and Eastern Bavaria.......................587 31.2 Playout Center and Feed Networks ............................................590 31.3 Technical Configuration ofthe Transmitter Sites.......................591 31.3.1 Mount WendelsteinTransmitter ..........................................592 31.3.2 Olympic Tower Transmitter, Munich..................................606 31.3.3 Brotjacklriegel Transmitter..................................................609 31.4 Measurements in DVB-T Single-Frequency Networks ..............612 31.4.1 Test Parameters....................................................................612 31.4.2 Practical Examples ..............................................................620 31.4.3 Response of DVB-T Receivers............................................627 31.4.4 Receiver Test and Simulation of Receiving Conditions in Single-Frequency Networks ...........................................................628 31.5 Network Planning .......................................................................632 31.6 Filling the Gaps in the Coverage ................................................632 31.7 Fall-off-the-Cliff .........................................................................635 31.8 Summary.....................................................................................636 32 DTMB ................................................................................................637 32.1 DMB-T, or now DTMB..............................................................637 32.2 Some more Details......................................................................638 33 Return Channel Techniques ............................................................641 Table of Contents XXV 34 Display Technologies ........................................................................643 34.1 Previous Converter Systems - the Nipkow Disk.........................645 34.2 The Cathode Ray Tube (CRT)....................................................647 34.3 The Plasma Screen......................................................................651 34.4 The Liquid Crystal Display Screen.............................................652 34.5 Digital Light Processing Systems ...............................................654 34.6 Organic Light-Emitting Diodes ..................................................654 34.7 Effects on Image Reproduction ..................................................654 34.8 Compensation Methods ..............................................................657 34.9 Test Methods ..............................................................................657 34.10 Current State of the Technology...............................................658 35 The New Generation of DVB Standards.........................................661 35.1 Overview of the DVB Standards ................................................662 35.2 Characteristics of the Old and the New Standards......................663 35.3 Capabilities and Aims of the New DVB Standards ....................664 36 Baseband Signals for DVB-x2..........................................................667 36.1 Input SignalFormats...................................................................667 36.1.1 MPEG-2 Transport Streams - TS ........................................668 36.1.2 Generic Fixed Packetized Streams - GFPS .........................669 36.1.3 Generic Continuous Streams - GCS ....................................669 36.1.4 Generic Encapsulated Streams - GSE..................................670 36.2 Signal Processing and Conditioning in the Modulator Input Section ................................................................................................670 36.2.1 Single Input Stream .............................................................671 36.2.2 Multiple Input Streams ........................................................674 36.3 Standard-related Special Features...............................................677 36.3.1 DVB-S2 ...............................................................................677 36.3.2 DVB-T2...............................................................................678 36.3.3 DVB-C2...............................................................................684 37 DVB-T2..............................................................................................687 37.1 Introduction.................................................................................687 37.2 Theoretical Maximum Channel Capacity ...................................688 37.3 DVB-T2 - Overview ...................................................................690 37.4 Baseband Interface......................................................................690 37.5 Forward Error Correction ...........................................................691 37.6 COFDM Parameters ...................................................................695 37.6.1 Normal Carrier Mode ..........................................................697 37.6.2 Extended Carrier Mode........................................................699 37.7 Modulation Patterns....................................................................700 XXVI Table of Contents 37.7.1 Normal Constellation Diagrams ..........................................701 37.7.2 Definition of 'Cell' ...............................................................701 37.7.3 Rotated Q-delayed Constellation Diagrams ........................702 37.8 Frame Structure ..........................................................................704 37.8.1 P1 Symbol............................................................................706 37.8.2 P2 Symbols ..........................................................................707 37.8.3 Symbol, Frame, Superframe................................................709 37.9 Block Diagram............................................................................709 37.10 Interleavers ...............................................................................710 37.10.1 Types of Interleaver...........................................................711 37.10.2 DVB-T2 Time Interleaver Configuration..........................712 37.11 Pilots .........................................................................................715 37.12 Sub-Slicing ...............................................................................717 37.13 Time-Frequency-Slicing (TFS).................................................718 37.14 PAPR Reduction.......................................................................719 37.15 SISO/MISO Multi-Antenna Systems........................................720 37.15.1 MISO according to Alamouti ............................................721 37.15.2 Modified Alamouti in DVB-T2 .........................................722 37.16 Future Extension Frames ..........................................................726 37.17 Auxiliary Data Streams.............................................................726 37.18 DVB-T2-MI..............................................................................726 37.19 SFNs in DVB-T2 ......................................................................726 37.20 Transmitter Identification Information in DVB-T2 ............ ....728 . 37.22 Outlook .....................................................................................729 37.21 Capacity ....................................................................................728 38 DVB-C2 – the New DVB Broadband Cable Standard ..................731 38.1 Introduction.................................................................................731 38.2 Theoretical Maximum Channel Capacity ...................................733 38.3 DVB-C2 – An Overview ............................................................734 38.4 Baseband Interface......................................................................735 38.5 Forward Error Correction ...........................................................735 38.6 COFDM Parameters ...................................................................735 38.7 Modulation Pattern .....................................................................737 38.8 Definition of a Cell .....................................................................739 38.9 Interleavers .................................................................................739 38.10 Variable Coding and Modulation (VCM).................................740 38.11 Frame Structure ........................................................................740 38.12 Channel Bundling and Slice Building ......................................741 38.13 Preamble Symbols ....................................................................742 38.14 Pilots in DVB-C2......................................................................745 38.15 PAPR ........................................................................................746 38.16 Block Diagram..........................................................................746 Table of Contents XXVII 38.17 Levels in Broadband Cables .....................................................746 38.18 Capacity ....................................................................................748 38.19 Outlook .....................................................................................748 39 DVB-x2 Measuring Techniques.......................................................749 39.1 DVB-S2 ......................................................................................749 39.2 DVB-T2 ......................................................................................750 39.3 DVB-C2......................................................................................752 39.4 Summary.....................................................................................753 40 CMMB – Chinese Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting ....................755 41 Other Transmission Standards........................................................757 41.1 MediaFLO...................................................................................757 41.2 IBOC - HD Radio .......................................................................758 41.3 FMextra.......................................................................................759 41.4 Effects of the Digital Dividend on Cable and Terrestrial TV Networks.............................................................................................759 41.4.1 Anatomy of the Mobile Radio Signals ................................760 41.4.2 Terrestrial TV Networks and Mobile Radio........................761 41.4.3 Broadband Cable TV Networks and Mobile Radio.............761 41.4.4 Electromagnetic Field Immunity Standard for Sound and Television Broadcast Receivers......................................................763 41.4.5 Summary..............................................................................764 42 Digital Television throughout the World - an Overview ..............765 Bibliography...........................................................................................769 Definition of Terms................................................................................777 TV Channel Tables ................................................................................791 Europe, Terrestrial and Cable .............................................................791 Australia, Terrestrial...........................................................................794 North America, Terrestrial..................................................................795 North America, Cable.........................................................................797 Europe, Satellite..................................................................................801 Index........................................................................................................803