DVB - a set of digital TV standards from the Digital Video Broadcasting Project
The DVB Project is a industry consortium that develops specifications for digital television systems, which are turned into standards by international standards bodies such as ETSI or CENELEC. DVB's open technical standards cover a broad range of of digital TV technologies for the delivery of digital TV over satellite, cable, terrestrial, and IPTV, as well as other broadcast services.
The DVB consortium is composed of manufacturers, software developers, network operators, broadcasters and regulators. It's specifications are available free of charge from the DVB standards page. One of the more prominent specifications is the one that describes DVB Service Information (DVB-SI), i.e. tables, descriptors, etc. in DVB systems; it's name is ETSI EN 300 468.
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