ISDB-T System
- ISDB (Integrated Digital Services Digital Broadcasting) is a new type of digital broadcasting intended to provide audio, video, and multimedia services.
T is Terrestrial. - ISDB-T system was developed by the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB) in Japan.
- ISDB-T is one of ISDB family.
- ISDB-T uses a modulation method referred to as Band Segmented Transmission (BST) OFDM
ARIB Technical Reports (published in June, 2007)
ISDB-T (Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial) has been developed and now on service in Japan, and adopted by Brazil.
ISDB-T proves best performances in Japanese DTTB service for more than 3 years.
Since Dec. 2003, start of Japanese DTTB service, DTTB service is rapidly migrated because of its advantages, and new service, named "One-seg", portable reception service in same channel, has been started from April 2006.
But, because of late start of ISDB-T, ISDB-T is not so popular in the world, so, we will submit this technical report to South America countries to understand the ISDB-T system and its advantages on technical aspect.
Now, 3 major DTTB( Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting) systems exist.
These are called:| (1) | ATSC: Advanced Television System Committee, Developed in USA, and now used. |
| (2) | DVB-T: Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial, developed in EU, and now used. |
| (3) | ISDB-T: Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting – Terrestrial, developed in Japan and now used in Japan and Brazil. |
| 1. | structure of technical standard for digital broadcasting |
| Generally speaking, Digital broadcasting system is composed by 3 functional blocks, (1)Source coding block, (2)Multiplex block, and (3)transmission coding block. | |
| 2. | About ISDB-T transmission system |
| Japanese digital terrestrial broadcasting system adopts excellent technologies for transmission system. | |
| 3. | Outline of transmission parameter |
| ISDB-T transmission system has a flexibility for the purpose of broadcasting service. |
ARIB Standards for Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting
For the details of structure of technical standard and relationship between each standards, see "Structure of Japan's digital broadcasting"
ISDB-T International Harmonization Documents (ABNT - ARIB - SBTVD Joint Documents)
Reference for characterizing of the specifications of Brazilian and Japanese digital terrestrial TV standards.