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AS 4599.1:2015
[Current]Digital television — Terrestrial broadcasting, Part 1: Characteristics of digital terrestrial television transmissions
Provides television receiver manufactures and broadcasters with the technical specification for the Australian digital terrestrial television transmission system.
Published: 30/06/2015
Pages: 75
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Cited references
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Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
1 Scope and general
1.1 Scope
1.2 Applicable standards
1.3 Application of DTTB in Australia
1.4 Referenced documents
1.5 Referenced organizations
2 Coding
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Audio (modification to ETSI TS 101 154)
2.2.1 Introduction
2.2.2 Guidelines for audio encoding
2.3 Examples of transmitted resolutions for SDTV and HDTV (Annex A in ETSI TS 101 154)
2.3.1 Introduction
2.3.2 Examples of transmitted luminance resolutions for SDTV and HDTV formats for Australian DTTB
3 Closed captions
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Enhanced Teletext specification (ETSI EN 300 706)
3.3 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Specification for conveying ITU-R System B Teletext in DVB bit streams (ETSI EN 300 472)
3.4 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Specification for the carriage of Vertical Blanking Information (VBI) data in DVB bit streams (ETSI EN 301 775)
4 Service information
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Specification for Service Information (SI) in DVB systems (ETSI EN 300 468)
4.2.1 Scope
4.2.2 Descriptor identification and location (Clause 6.1 in ETSI EN 300 468)
4.2.3 Content descriptor (Clause 6.2.9 in ETSI EN 300 468)
4.2.4 Semantics of the content descriptor
4.2.4.1 content_nibble_level_1
4.2.4.2 content_nibble_level_2
4.2.4.3 user_byte
4.2.5 Terrestrial delivery system descriptor (refer to Clause 6.2.13.4 ETSI EN 300 468)
4.2.6 Linkage descriptor (Clause 6.2.19 in ETSI EN 300 468)
4.2.7 Local time offset descriptor (Clause 6.2.20 in ETSI EN 300 468)
4.2.8 Semantics for the local time offset descriptor
4.2.8.1 country_code
4.2.8.2 country_region_id
4.2.8.3 local_time_offset_polarity
4.2.8.4 local_time_offset
4.2.8.5 time_of_change
4.2.8.6 next_time_offset
4.2.9 Service descriptor (refer Clause 6.2.33 in ETSI EN 300 468)
4.2.10 Logical_channel_descriptor (Australian addition)15
4.2.10.1 Introduction
4.2.11 Semantics of the logical channel descriptor
4.2.11.1 Descriptor_tag
4.2.11.2 Service_id
4.2.11.3 Visible_service_flag
4.2.11.4 Reserved
4.2.11.5 Logical_channel_number
4.2.12 Parental rating descriptor (Clause 6.2.28 in ETSI EN 300 468)
4.2.13 Semantics for the parental rating descriptor
4.2.13.1 country_code
4.2.13.2 Rating
4.2.14 Event information table (EIT) (refer to Clauses 5.2.4, 6.2.15 and 6.2.37 in ETSI EN 300 468)
4.3 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Guidelines on implementation and usage of Service Information (SI) (ETSI TS 101 211)
4.3.1 Introduction
4.3.2 Parental_rating_descriptor (Clause 4.2.4.8 in ETSI TR 101 211)
4.3.3 Local time offset descriptor (Clause 4.2.5.1 in ETSI TR 101 211)
4.3.4 Application information tables (AIT)
4.4 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Allocation of Service Information (SI) Codes for Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Systems (ETSI TS 101 162)
4.4.1 Introduction
4.4.2 Original network identification coding (Clause 5.7 in ETSI TS 101 162)
4.4.3 Network identification coding (Clause 5.2 in ETSI TS 101 162)
4.4.4 Bouquet_id (Clause 5.1 in ETSI TS 101 162)
4.4.5 Private data specifier values (Clause 5.8 in ETSI TS 101 162)
4.5 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Carriage and signalling of TV anytime information in DVB transport streams (ETSI TS 102 323)
5 Data
5.1 Implemented DVB data Standards
5.1.1 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—DVB Specification for data broadcasting (ETSI EN 301 192)
5.1.2 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Implementation guidelines for Data Broadcasting (ETSI TR 101 202)
5.1.3 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Specification for System Software Update in DVB Systems (ETSI TS 102 006)
5.2 Non-implemented DVB data standards—Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Specification for the carriage of Vertical Blanking Information (VBI) data in DVB bit streams (ETSI EN 301 775)
6 Modulation
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Framing structure, channel coding and modulation for digital terrestrial television (ETSI EN 300 744)
6.2.1 Scope
6.2.2 Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing frame structure (Clause 4.4 in ETSI EN 300 744)
6.2.3 Functions and derivation (Clause 4.5.1 in ETSI EN 300 744)
6.2.4 Location of scattered pilot cells (Clause 4.5.3 in ETSI EN 300 744)
6.2.5 Transmission parameter signalling (TPS) (refer to Clause 4.6 of ETSI EN300 744)
6.2.5.1 General
6.2.5.2 Initialization
6.2.5.3 Synchronization
6.2.5.4 TPS length indicator
6.2.5.5 Frame number
6.2.5.6 Constellation
6.2.5.7 Hierarchy information24
6.2.5.8 Code rates
6.2.5.9 Guard intervals
6.2.5.10 Transmission mode
6.2.5.11 Cell identifier
6.2.5.12 Error protection of TPS
6.2.6 TPS modulation
6.2.7 Number of RS-packets per OFDM super-frame (Annex E in ETSI EN 300 744)
6.2.8 Spectrum characteristics (Clause 4.8.1 in ETSI EN 300 744)
6.2.9 Amplitudes of all reference information (Clause 4.5.5 in ETSI EN 300 744)
6.2.10 Out-of-band spectrum mask (for 7 MHz channels) (Clause 4.8.2 in ETSI EN 300 744)
6.2.11 Centre frequency of RF signal (for 7 MHz channels) (Clause 4.8.3 in ETSI EN 300 744)
6.2.12 Simulated system performance for 7 MHz channels (Annex A in ETSI EN 300 744)
6.2.13 Values for 7 MHz channels (Annex E in ETSI EN 300 744)
6.3 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—DVB mega-frame for Single Frequency Network (SFN) synchronization (ETSI TS 101 191)
6.4 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Implementation guidelines for DVB terrestrial services—Transmission aspects (ETSI TR 101 190)
7 Conditional access
7.1 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Support for Use of Scrambling and Conditional Access (CA) within Digital Broadcasting Systems (ETSI TS 100 289)
7.2 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—DVB Simulcrypt—Head-end Architecture and Syncronization (ETSI TS 101 197)
7.3 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Head-end Implementation of DVB Simulcrypt (ETSI TS 103 197)
7.4 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Implementation Guidelines of the DVB Simulcrypt Standard (ETSI TR 102 035)
8 Extended functionality
8.1 Hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HBBTV)
8.2 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB)—Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) for DVB Systems
8.3 MHEG-5 broadcast profile
8.4 DVB services for internet protocol delivery
8.5 Digital storage media—Command and control
9 Copy protection, copy management
10 Measurement
Appendix A
A1 Teletext Standard for Australian DVB-T transmissions
A2 Australian operational practice for closed captions
A3 Identification of closed captions in accordance with ETSI EN 300 472
A3.1 PES syntax
A3.2 Variations to program time stamping (PTS)
A4 Display of captions on live programs
A5 Closed captions in HD programs
A5.1 General
A5.2 Teletext closed caption presentation time stamps and the stream program clock reference
A5.2.1 PTS requirements
A5.2.2 PTS requirements for SD/HD simulcast
Appendix B
B1 Introduction
B2 Implementation of single frequency networks (SFN)
B2.1 SFN parameters
B2.2 Types of SFN implementation (e.g. 1 + 0, 1 + 1, 1 + n)
B3 SFN feed types
B4 Transmission site selection—Siting/timing/propagation/terrain
B5 SFN design and implementation
B5.1 Planning DTTB coverage using SFN
B5.2 Differences between coverage prediction and planning
B5.3 Guard intervals (GI) and SFN planning
B5.4 Wide area SFNs and SFN self-interference areas (often known as ‘mush zone’)
B5.5 TPS within an SFN
B5.6 SFN timing structure
B5.7 Modulator interoperability and timing matching
B5.8 Special considerations of on-channel repeaters
B6 Assumptions on DVB-T receiver system design
B6.1 DVB-T receivers (e.g. performance, noise figure, channel selectivity/sensitivity)
B6.2 Receive antenna performance and orientation
B7 Potential implementation issues
B7.1 Global positioning system (GPS)
B7.2 Other issues
B8 DVB-T SFN coverage planning
B8.1 Condition A: Small area SFN (where transmission site’s separation propagation delay is less than the guard interval)
B8.2 Condition B: Wide area SFN (where transmission site separation propagation delay is greater than the guard interval GI)
Appendix C
C1 General
C2 Infrastructure components
C3 Guidance on measurement method
C4 Guidance on spectrum analyser settings
C5 Spurious emmisions
C6 Out-of-band emissions for >25 W transmitters
C7 Out-of-band emissions for <25 W transmitters
Appendix D
Cited references in this standard
ETSI TS 100 289 V1.1.1
Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Support for use of Scrambling and Conditional Access (CA) within Digital Broadcasting Systems
[Current]
Information technology — Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1,5 Mbit/s — Part 4: Compliance testing — Technical Corrigendum 1
ETSI ES 202 184 V2.3.1
MHEG-5 Broadcast Profile
ETSI EN 302 296-2 V1.2.1
Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum Matters (ERM); Transmitting equipment for the digital television broadcast services, Terrestrial (DVB-T); Part 2: Harmonized EN under article 3.2 of the R&TTE Directive
[Current]
Digital television — Requirements for receivers for VHF/UHF DVB-T television broadcasts including ancillary services
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