European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization

Digital terrestrial television receivers for the DVB-T system
 N EN 62216

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Scope and object

This International Standard specifies both Standard Definition and High Definition receivers for the DVB-T system.

It concerns:

• broadcasters, and

• receiver manufacturers.

The objective is to define:

• how to provide broadcasts that are understood by all receivers and enable receivers to provide good facilities to their users;

• the behaviour required from receivers to work well with these broadcasts and to be attractive to consumers.

To avoid doubt, the words "shall", "should", etc. are used in the traditional way to distinguish issues that are mandatory versus those that are optional A baseline receiver will support the mandatory features but not all the optional features in this standard. Inclusion of optional features is part of the marketing strategy of the manufacturer.

Subtitling and teletext are considered to be components of TV services. Standalone teletext services (without associated video content) are not part of this standard.

This standard primarily addresses terrestrial delivery of digital transmissions.

This standard primarily addresses deployment in countries that use European Latin script based languages.

Two types of systems are considered: