Digital Terrestrial Television:
An Overview
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If you would like to make a provisional registration for this course send an email with your full contact details to: B.Steel@surrey.ac.uk .
COURSE CONTENT
Speakers drawn from a number of organisations directly involved in the implementation of the world's first commercial DVB-based Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) system will give a practical introduction to the design of DVB DTT systems. The course is aimed at those who need an overview of Digital Terrestrial Television, and is firmly based on practical experience gained in the UK. Topics will include:
. UK regulatory position |
. Receiver hardware and software |
. MPEG-2 encoding |
. Conditional access |
. DVB transport streams |
. Case study |
. OFDM modulation |
. Monitoring and measurements |
The course includes a visit to National Grid's Transmitter site at Guildford - weather permitting!. If wet weather is predicted, walking shoes or boots are advisable as the site can get muddy!
A large range of material is covered over the three days of this course and it is intended to give a general overview rather than go into a great deal of detail.
The course will suit engineers with a reasonable knowledge of general television broadcasting principles.
The course has proved very popular over the last four years and around 200 TV engineers have attended this course. The course is constantly updated to meet the changing trends and technologies in the Television Industry.
Please note that we are also running a course in High Definition Television from 28-29 March 2006
UPDATED SYLLABUS
. Setting the scene: Licensing in the UK, technical standards, analogue switch-off, review of international DTT roll-out.
. Video and audio coding: The need for compression, MPEG-2 profiles and levels, basic compression techniques, typical encoder architecture, bit rates for picture and sound quality targets, bitstream statistics, concatenation, new compression algorithms.
. The DVB Transport Stream: SI, PSI, EPGs, data broadcasting, data carousels, private data, opportunistic data.
. Channel coding and modulation: Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, the DVB-T specification, how it is implemented, effects of multipath, mobile applications, multi-frequency networks (MFN), single frequency networks (SFN), comparison with the US standard (8-VSB).
. Reception: receiver RF performance, individual domestic reception, Master Antenna (MATV) reception, Integrated Reception Systems (IRS).
. Receivers: hardware architecture, common interface, receiver software, interactive TV, MHEG-5, DVB MHP.
. Conditional access: Business model enforcement, EMMs and ECMs, smart cards, Simulcrypt, subscriber management, anti-piracy measures.
. Case study: programme distribution & multiplexing, schedule distribution and collation, central and distributed SI.
. Bitstream monitoring and measurements, in-service and out-of-service video quality measurement techniques and systems.
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. Visit to the Guildford transmitter.
- Transmitters: redundancy switching, effects of transmitter non-linearity, practical filter and combiner implementations. Measurements: phase noise, loss of noise margin, modulation error ratios. Control and monitoring techniques.
TIMETABLE PROVISIONAL
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | |
| 9:00-10:30 | Introduction: Setting the Scene Greg Bensberg, Independent Television Commission |
The DVB Transport Stream Guy Hirson, Broadlynx Ltd
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Bitstream Monitoring and Measurement Lionel Durant TTI Ltd |
| 10:30-11:00 | COFFEE | COFFEE | COFFEE |
| 11:00-12:30 | Video and Audio Coding I
Alois Bock, TANDBERG Television |
Reception systems
Peter Barnett, Mandercom Ltd |
Case Study Dr Peter Marshall Digital Television Group |
| 12:30-13:30 | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH |
| 13:30-15:00 | Video and Audio Coding II
Alois Bock, TANDBERG Television |
Receiver Hardware (13:30-14:30) Peter Lewis |
Transmitters
Keith Hayler National Grid Wireless Group |
| 15:00-15:30 | TEA | TEA | TEA |
| 15:30-17:00 | Channel coding and modulation Adrian Turner, TANDBERG TELEVISION
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Receiver Software (14:45-15:45) Nick Thorne |
Visit to Guildford Transmitter Site Keith Hayler, National Grid Wireless Group |
Conditional Access (16:00-17:30) Guy Hopkins |
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revised B Steel 24 November 2005
THE PRESENTERS
Peter Barnett
Peter
Barnett, CEng, MIEE, has over 27 years of experience of broadcast transmission
technology, and runs his own consultancy company, Mandercom Limited. He is
chairman of the UK Digital Television Group's Technical Steering Group,
Technical Plenary, and Reception Group. For over seven years he has
contributed to the DVB Technical Module, and he attends the DVB Steering Board
and Commercial Module.
Peter Lewis
Peter Lewis, CEng, MIEE, is a Specialist in DVB Receiver
Systems at Philips Semiconductors Systems Laboratory in
Southampton, UK. He has worked for the Philips organisation since 1969. He
started at their research laboratories in Redhill, where he worked on
Automatic Aerial Tuning (HF), Aerial Beam Steering (VHF), and finally TV
Transmitter Precorrection (UHF). He then moved to Philips Semiconductors, and
has since specialised in TV receiver systems.
Guy Hopkins
Guy Hopkins is Director of Pre-Sales Technical Support at
NDS where he provides technical expertise supporting the
delivery of Conditional Access systems used in digital Terrestrial, Cable and
Satellite systems.
Greg Bensberg
Greg Bensberg CEng MIEE gained a BSc in 1986 and a MBA in
1999. He joined the ITC, the UK television regulator, in 1992 and is currently
Project Director of Digital Planning. He has been involved in all elements of
digital broadcasting including leading the Spectre Project which mounted the
first UK trials of Digital Terrestrial Television in the early 90's, the
development of the DVB transmission standard, the licensing of DTT services by
the ITC in 1996. He is currently Chairman of the Joint Planning Project (which
plans and allocates spectrum for UK DTT services) and is founder and chairman
of the Go Digital Project which is carrying out a switchover trial in Central
England in conjunction with the UK government and the broadcasting
industry.
Keith Hayler
Keith Hayler, CEng, MIEE, is Principal Technologist with National
Grid Wireless (formerly Crown Castle). With over 30 years experience in a
wide range of broadcast transmission technologies, he has worked in the development
of DTT networks since their inception. Keith played a key role for Crown Castle
as technical manager in the roll-out of UK DTT in the late 90's and the re-launch
as Freeview in 2002.
Alois Bock
Alois Bock, Dipl.Ing.(FH), PhD, MIEE, is a Senior Member
of Technical Staff at TANDBERG Television. He has worked on both algorithmic
development and hardware implementation of MPEG compression and transport
stream processing equipment including video pre-processing, motion estimation
and transport
stream splicing.
Lionel Durant
Lionel Durant joined Tektronix in 1979 and is currently MPEG Product Manager for Tektronix in Cambridge. His involvement with the Video Industry started in 1985 when he joined the UK TV test group as an Account Manager. He addressed major Broadcasters including the BBC, ITN, Central, as well as addressing other key accounts such as Sony and British Telecom, and became Sales Manager for the UK.
He then moved to become European Market Specialist in Video Technologies and contributed to activities within the EBU, DVB, specifically within the Measurement Group. He is a co-rapporteur for Picture Quality questions within ITU-T Study Group 9.
He has presented many papers at Industry Seminars, "Made to Measure" and IBC.
REGISTRATION
PRICE
Price per person, including lunch, refreshments and printed course notes
- £995 - Standard Rate
- £950 - Early bird rate for payment received by 26 May 2005
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For IEE Members and members of the Digital Television Group (DTG) (proof of membership needed)
- £995- Standard Rate
- £900 - Early Bird Rate for payment received by 26 May 2005
Group discounts available for registrations of 3 or more delegates from one company - please telephone Barbara Steel, CE Manager, on 01483 686040 for further information. VAT is not charged as the University is an educational establishment.
ACCOMMODATION
Unfortunately on-site accommodation is not available on this course. Details of accommodation in the local area can be found on our website at the following address:-
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CE/Hotel%20List.htm
Enquiries should be addressed to: Barbara Steel, CE Manager Tel: +44(0)1483 686040
STOP PRESS!
We are proposing to run an additional courses in Digital Switchover and High-Definition Television. If you would like advance notic of dates for these courses and a brochure, when available, please email B.Steel@surrey.ac.uk
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