Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite (DVB-S) is the original

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standard for

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and dates from 1995, in its first release, while development lasted from 1993 to 1997. The first commercial applications was by

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in Asia and Galaxy in Australia, enabling digitally broadcast, satellite-delivered

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to the public.DVB-S was the first DVB standard for satellite, defining the framing structure, channel coding and modulation for 11/12 GHz satellite services It is used via satellites serving every continent of the world. DVB-S is used in both Multiple Channel Per Carrier (MCPC) and

Single channel per carrier Single channel per carrier (SCPC) refers to using a single signal at a given frequency and bandwidth. Most often, this is used on broadcast satellites to indicate that radio stations are not multiplexed as subcarriers onto a single video carrier ...

modes for

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feeds as well as for

direct-broadcast satellite Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commo ...

services like Sky (UK & Ireland) via Astra in Europe, Dish Network and

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in the U.S. and

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in Canada. While the actual DVB-S standard only specifies physical link characteristics and framing, the overlaid transport stream delivered by DVB-S is mandated as MPEG-2, known as MPEG transport stream (MPEG-TS). Some

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repeaters also use this mode in the 1.2 GHz amateur band.

References

External links

ETSI DVB-S/S2

DVB-S TR 101 198 V1.1.1 (09/97)
Implementation of Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) modulation in DVB satellite transmission systems
DVB-S EN 300 421 V1.1.2 (08/97)
Framing structure, channel coding and modulation for 11/12 GHz satellite services
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