Overview of Digital Television Development Worldwide

摘要

This special issue of the PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE presents a systematical and complete tutorial on digital television (DTV), produced by a team of DTV experts worldwide. This introductory paper puts the current DTV systems into perspective and explains the historical background and different evolution paths that each system took. The main focus is on terrestrial DTV systems, but satellite and cable DTV are also covered, as well as several other emerging services.