Digital Terrestrial Television in Australia
17 June 2015
ITU International Symposium on the Digital Switchover
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Digital Terrestrial Television in Australia ITU International Symposium on the Digital Switchover 17 June 2015 1 Digital Terrestrial Television in Australia Contents Television service areas Timetable, DTTB implementation and
17 June 2015
ITU International Symposium on the Digital Switchover
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Television service areas Timetable, DTTB implementation and Analogue Switch Off Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcast Planning in Australia Simulcast Digital Dividend
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▌ Television Service Licence / Market Areas
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▌ Timetable
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▌ System Overview
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▌ Single frequency networks ▌ Conventional SFN
Tx 2 3 SFN launch delay Translator delay storage 1pps GPS Rx GPS Rx 1pps GPS Rx 1pps Tx Link Mux Link Link propagation time 1 Maximum_delay 10MHz 10MHz 10MHz Link Link
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▌ Single frequency networks ▌ MFN FED SFN TRANSMISSION SYSTEM (1 + n)
Link VHFTx Mux Link UHFTx Link propagation time 1 2 3 SFN launch delay Maximum_delay Translator delay storage GPS Rx 1pps 10MHz GPS Rx 1pps 10MHz UHFTx GPS Rx 1pps 10MHz Translator No. 2 in SFN Translator No. 1 in SFN Input stream data-derived MFN
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Digital Terrestrial Television in Australia
▌ Planning parameters and interference threshold limits
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▌ Digital Switchover - simulcast
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▌ Digital Dividend
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▌ Digital Dividend
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▌ References [1] ACMA DTTB Planning Handbook [2] ACMA Technical Planning Guidelines [3] Recommendation ITU-R BT.1368 Planning criteria, including protection ratios, for digital terrestrial television services in the VHF/UHF bands [4] Recommendation ITU-R BT.1735 Methods for objective reception quality assessment of digital terrestrial television broadcasting signals of System B specified in Recommendation ITU-R BT.1306 [5] Report ITU-R BT.2140 Transition from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting [6] AS4599 Digital television - Terrestrial broadcasting - Characteristics of digital terrestrial television transmissions, Standards Australia [7] Draft Implementation of Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting - Case Study – Australia, an ITU Development Sector publication
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