EN 62216-1:2002

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STANDARD
december 2003
Digital terrestrial television receivers for the DVB-T system - Part 1: Baseline
receiver specification (IEC 62216-1:2001)
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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 62216-1
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM October 2002

ICS 33.160.20
English version
Digital terrestrial television receivers for the DVB-T system
Part 1: Baseline receiver specification
(IEC 62216-1:2001)
Récepteur de télévision numérique Fernsehempfänger für das digitale
terrestre pour le système DVB-T terrestrische DVB-T-System
Partie 1: Spécification du récepteur Teil 1: Festlegungen für den Basis-
de base Empfänger
(CEI 62216-1:2001) (IEC 62216-1:2001)

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Foreword
The text of the International Standard IEC 62216-1:2001, prepared by IEC TC 100, Audio, video
and multimedia systems and equipment, was submitted to the formal vote and was approved by
CENELEC as EN 62216-1 on 2002-09-01.

The following dates were fixed:

- latest date by which the EN has to be implemented
at national level by publication of an identical
national standard or by endorsement (dop) 2003-09-01

- latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2005-09-01

Annexes designated "normative" are part of the body of the standard.
Annexes designated "informative" are given for information only.
In this standard, Annexes A, B, D and ZA are normative and Annexes C, E, F and G are
informative.
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62216-1:2001 was approved by CENELEC as a
European Standard without any modification.
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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
This European Standard incorporates by dated or undated reference, provisions from other
publications. These normative references are cited at the appropriate places in the text and the
publications are listed hereafter. For dated references, subsequent amendments to or revisions
of any of these publications apply to this European Standard only when incorporated in it by
amendment or revision. For undated references the latest edition of the publication referred to
applies (including amendments).
NOTE When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD
applies.
International Year Title European Year
Publication publication
1) 2)
IEC 60169-2 - Radio-frequency connectors HD 134.2 S2 1984
Part 2: Coaxial unmatched connector

1)
ISO/IEC 6937 - Information technology - Coded graphic - -
character set for text communication -
Latin alphabet
1)
ISO/IEC 8859-9 - Information technology - 8-bit single-- -
byte coded graphic character sets
Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5
1)
ISO/IEC 11172-2 - Information technology - Coding of - -
moving pictures and associated audio
for digital storage media at up to about
1,5 Mbit/s - Part 2: Video
1)
ISO/IEC 13818-1 - Information technology - Generic coding - -
of moving pictures and associated audio
information: Systems
1)
ISO/IEC 13818-2 - Information technology - Generic coding - -
of moving pictures and associated audio
information: Video
1)
ISO/IEC 13818-3 - Information technology - Generic coding - -
of moving pictures and associated audio
information: Audio
1)
ITU-R BT.470-6 - Conventional television systems - -

1)
ITU-R BS.775-1 - Multichannel stereophonic sound - -
system with and without accompanying
picture
1)
ITU-R BT.1119-2 - Wide-screen signalling for broadcasting - -
(Signalling for wide-screen and other
enhanced television parameters)

1)
Undated reference.
2)
Valid edition at date of issue.

International Year Title European Year
Publication publication
1)
ITU-R BT.1359-1 - Relative timing of sound and vision for - -
broadcasting
1)
- - Domestic and similar electronic EN 50049-1 -
equipment interconnection
requirements: Peritelevision connector

1)
- - Common interface specification for EN 50221 -
conditional access and other digital
video broadcasting decoder applications

1)
- - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - EN 300 468 -
Specification for Service Information
(SI) in DVB systems
1)
- - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - EN 300 744 -
Framing structure, channel coding and
modulation for digital terrestrial
television (DVB-T)
1)
- - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - EN 301 775 -
Specification for the carriage of Vertical
Blanking Information (VBI) data in DVB
bitstreams
1)
- - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - ETR 289 -
Support for use of scrambling and
Conditional Access (CA) within digital
broadcasting systems
1)
- - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - ETR 154 -
Implementation guidelines for the use of
MPEG-2 systems, video and audio in
satellite, cable and terrestrial
broadcasting applications
1)
- - Digital broadcasting systems for ETR 162 -
television sound and data services -
Allocation of Service Information (SI)
codes for Digital Video Broadcasting
(DVB) systems
1)
- - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - ETR 211 -
Guidelines on implementation and
usage of Service Information (SI)

1)
- - Television systems - Specification of the ETS 300 231 -
domestic video Programme Delivery
Control system (PDC)
1)
- - Television systems - 625 line television ETS 300 294 -
Wide Screen Signalling (WSS)
1)
- - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - ETS 300 472 -
Specification for conveying ITU-R
system B teletext in DVB bitstreams

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International Year Title European Year
Publication publication
1)
- - Enhanced teletext specification ETS 300 706 -

1)
- - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - ETS 300 743 -
Subtitling systems
1)
- - Guidelines for implementation and use R206-001 -
of the common interface for DVB
decoder applications
1)
- - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - TS 101 699 -
Extensions to the common interface
specification
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INTERNATIONAL IEC
STANDARD
62216-1
First edition
2001-10
Digital terrestrial television receivers
for the DVB-T system –
Part 1:
Baseline receiver specification
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.7
INTRODUCTION.8
1 Scope.10
2 Normative references .10
3 Abbreviations and symbols .11
4 Receiver capabilities .12
4.1 Frequency spectrum.12
4.2 Conditional access .12
4.3 Return path .12
4.4 Navigator (SI).13
4.5 Auto installation.13
4.6 Teletext carried in digital streams.13
4.7 Analogue recording/copy management .13
4.8 Services .13
4.9 Future versions of this specification.13
5 Video system characteristics .14
5.1 Introduction .14
5.2 Essential requirements .14
5.3 Constraints and extensions .14
5.3.1 Support for rapid channel acquisition.14
5.3.2 Picture types .14
5.3.3 ISO/IEC 11172-2 compatibility.14
5.3.4 User data.15
5.3.5 Video alignment.15
6 Video display formatting .16
6.1 Introduction .16
6.2 Video format.16
6.2.1 Requirements for DVB compliance .16
6.3 Recommendations for signalling in the video stream .16
6.3.1 Sequence header .17
6.3.2 Sequence display extension .17
6.3.3 Constraints on the use of the picture display extension.18
6.3.4 Format switching .18
6.4 Video format signalling extensions .18
6.4.1 MPEG signalling .19
6.4.2 DVB signalling.19
6.4.3 Active format description .19
6.5 Recommendations for ISO/IEC 13818-1 signalling.26
6.6 Alignment of video and graphics.26
6.6.1 Video with graphics .26
6.6.2 Uncertainty of position of graphics over video.26
7 Audio system characteristics .27
7.1 Introduction .27
7.2 Essential requirements .27
7.2.1 Scope of requirements.27
7.2.2 Synchronisation.27

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7.2.3 Decoding requirements.28
7.3 Constraints and extensions .28
7.3.1 Surround sound .28
7.4 Audio description.28
7.4.1 Background (informative).28
7.4.2 Receiver implementation minima .28
7.4.3 Signalling .28
7.4.4 Constraints on audio description stream coding.32
7.4.5 Implementation notes .32
7.5 Audio only services .34
7.6 PSI signalling .34
8 Multiplex and transport stream characteristics .34
8.1 Scope.34
8.2 Essential requirements .34
8.2.1 Multiplexing .34
8.2.2 Demultiplexing.35
8.3 Constraints and extensions .35
8.3.1 Multicomponent programs.35
9 Service and program specific information .36
9.1 Introduction .36
9.1.1 General requirements .36
9.1.2 General receiver requirements.36
9.1.3 General broadcaster requirements.37
9.1.4 Notation.38
9.2 SI & PSI Specification .38
9.2.1 Summary.38
9.2.2 Program association table .39
9.2.3 Program map table .39
9.2.4 Conditional access table.41
9.2.5 Network information table .41
9.2.6 Bouquet association table.43
9.2.7 Service description table .43
9.2.8 Event information table.45
9.2.9 Time and date table and time offset table .47
9.2.10 Running status table.48
9.2.11 Private data.48
9.3 Receiver functions.52
9.3.1 Information typically available to the user .52
9.3.2 Service change.52
9.3.3 Parental control .55
9.3.4 Receiver behaviour when a service stops .55
9.4 Establishing and maintaining the network connection .55
9.4.1 Use of SI identifiers .55
9.4.2 Auto installation.57
9.4.3 Network evolution.58
9.4.4 Logical channel numbers (LCN).61
9.4.5 Recommendation for robust SI acquisition.64
9.5 User interface.66
9.5.1 Presentation of text .66

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9.5.2 Information presentation.67
9.5.3 Service navigation .69
9.5.4 Display of time.70
9.6 Recording devices.70
9.6.1 Programming.70
9.6.2 Execution of recording.70
9.6.3 Control of analogue recorders .71
10 Subtitles .71
10.1 Introduction .71
10.2 Broadcast specifications.71
10.2.1 DVB subtitles.71
10.2.2 Signalling .72
10.2.3 Recommendation.72
10.3 Receiver functions.72
10.3.1 Background .72
10.3.2 User control of receiver behaviour .73
11 VBI based services.73
11.1 Introduction .73
11.2 Broadcast specifications.73
11.3 Receiver functions.74
11.3.1 Processing capabilities .74
11.3.2 Control .74
11.4 Extended VBI format support.74
11.4.1 VPS.75
11.4.2 WSS.75
11.4.3 Teletext and teletext subtitles .75
12 RF-part and channel decoder .75
12.1 General .75
12.2 Frequencies and channel bandwidth.75
12.3 DVB-T modes.75
12.4 Tuning procedure .76
12.5 Change of modulation parameters .76
12.6 Connector .76
12.7 Performance.76
12.7.1 C/N performance .76
12.7.2 Minimum receiver signal input levels .76
12.7.3 Maximum input level.77
12.7.4 Resistanceto analogue and/or digital signals in other channels.77
12.7.5 Resistance to co-channel interference from analogue TV signals.77
12.7.6 Guard interval utilisation in single frequency networks.78
13 Conditional access and the common interface .78
13.1 Introduction .78
13.2 Minimum Requirements .78
Annex A (normative) SI character set.79
A.1 Set of languages supported.79
A.2 Structure of character table .79
Annex B (normative) DVB-SI PDC descriptor .88
B.1 Introduction .88

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B.2 PDC descriptor.88
Annex C (informative)  Bootloader and software download.90
C.1 Overview .90
C.2 Signalling .90
C.3 User interface.91
Annex D (normative) Subtitling.92
D.1 Introduction .92
D.2 Essential requirements .92
D.3 Corrigenda to ETS 300 743 .92
D.4 Clarifications to ETS 300 743 .93
D.5 Revised decoder model .99
D.6 UK specific features .105
D.7 OSD Conflicts.106
D.8 System capabilities (informative) .106
D.9 Encoding Guidelines (informative) .106
D.10 Decoder treatment of errors.107
Annex E (informative) An example of frequencies and offsets .109
E.1 UHF .109
E.2 VHF.109
Annex F (informative) Noise model .110
Annex G (informative) An example of C/N-performance with a practical transmitter .111
Bibliography.112
Figure 1 – Relationship between digital video and analogue video .15
Figure 2 – Receiver and display format processing reference model .21
Figure 3 – Uncertainty of positioning graphics over video.27
Figure 4 – Illustration of control of audio level.29
Figure 5 – Mapping of pan byte onto sound presentation .32
Figure 6 – The “cold-cut” approach illustrated .33
Figure 7 – Generic single external decoder approach illustrated .33
Figure 8 – Possible single external decoder approaches illustrated.34
Figure 9 – Service regionalisation.62
Figure D.1 – High level bitstream organisation.94
Figure D.2 – Region depth selection .96
Figure D.3 – Mapping code strings to pixels in “requested” depth region.97
Figure D.4 – Mapping code strings to pixels.98
Figure D.5 – Subtitle reference decoder model .100
Figure D.6 – The two modelled decoding phases .101
Figure D.7 – Detail of data decoding phase.102
Figure D.8 – Disruption to display at start of new epoch.102
Figure F.1 – Tuner Noise Model.110
Table 1 – Horizontal scaling where format is signalled by the sequence header alone .17
Table 2 – Pan scan window .17
Table 3 – Non “full screen”.18
Table 4 – Formats described by the active_format description .19

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Table 5 – Processing by STB connected to 4:3 TV.22
Table 6 – User options for displaying 16:9 on 4:3.23
Table 7 – User options for displaying >16:9 on 4:3.23
Table 8 – Processing by STB connected to 16:9 TV.24
Table 9 – WSS codes for aspect ratio .25
Table 10 – Values for other WSS bits .25
Table 11 – Audio Description Descriptor .29
Table 12 – Illustration of PES packet header .31
Table 13 – Key to symbols.38
Table 14 – Summary of required tables.38
Table 15 – Program descriptors .39
Table 16 – Elementary streams descriptors .39
Table 17 – Network descriptors (first loop).41
Table 18 – Transport stream descriptors (second loop).42
Table 19 – Service descriptors.43
Table 20 – Event information descriptors .45
Table 21 – Time Offset Table descriptors.47
Table 22 – Private SI recognised by this specification.48
Table 23 – Syntax of the eacem stream identifier descriptor .48
Table 24 – Syntax of the logical channel descriptor .49
Table 25 – Logical Channel Number .50
Table 26 – Syntax of the preferred name list descriptor .50
Table 27 – Syntax of the preferred name identifier descriptor .51
Table 28 – Subtitle preference modes defined .53
Table 29 – Receiver Response to Missing SI Tables.65
Table 30 – Text Field Lengths.67
Table 31 – Subtitle preference modes defined .73
Table 32 – C/N (dB) for Reference BER.76
Table A.1 – Allowed character codes in SI text fields .80
Table B.1 – Syntax of the PDC descriptor .88
Table C.1 – Example download information structure.91
Table D.1 – Corrigenda to ETS 300 743.92
Table D.2 – Notes to Figure D-1.95
Table D.3 – Additional display update budget for page/region operations.103
Table D.4 – End of display set segment syntax .105
Table D.5 – Example subtitle system performance.106
Table G.1 – C/N (dB) for Reference BER .111

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DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION RECEIVERS
FOR THE DVB-T SYSTEM –
Part 1: Baseline receiver specification
FOREWORD
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of patent rights. The IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
International Standard IEC 62216-1 has been prepared by technical area 1, Digital receiving
equipment, of IEC technical committee 100: Audio, video and multimedia systems and
equipment
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
CDV Report on voting
100/211/CDV 100/267/RVC
Full information on the voting for the approval of this standard can be found in the report on
voting indicated in the above table.
This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 3.
Annexes A, B and D form an integral part of this standard. Annexes C, E, F and G are for
information only.
The committee has decided that this publication remains valid until 2003. At this date, in
accordance with the committee’s decision, the publication will be
• reconfirmed;
• withdrawn;
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.
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INTRODUCTION
Television has evolved over the last half century from an up-market entertainment medium to
becoming the major information tool around the world.
Television is available to virtually all people around the globe, be it individually or in a
community setting.
The advent of the “personal computer”, enabling global reach and instant interaction has
escalated the demand for more and more information and the ability to respond to it instantly.
It is thus that the broadcasters and content providers set out to seek new means of delivering
higher levels of content, be it in volume or quality using existing or new transport mechanisms
available.
Digitalisation, taken from the world of information technology was the obvious choice.
It further brought the added benefits of efficient use of spectrum and energy, not to mention
interaction through a return path.
Terrestrial television has to migrate from analogue to digital in order to survive in the new
information society.
Without any doubt, all means of information and content dissemination technology will merge
over time, provided that sound business models find uptake by consumers at large.
Governments are keen to switch off the inefficient analogue broadcasts for a number of
obvious reasons, but only will be able to do so when consumers are confident that the new
proposition is attractive and affordable.
Business models are being developed to promote the uptake of digital receivers, however this
activity up to now is mainly led by private enterprises targeting the public sector willing to pay
for services in addition to those available from established public broadcasters.
This in itself is fine, but will not enable the migration from analogue to digital of all broadcasts,
however funded.
The more so as it has led to a variety of incompatible platforms tied to particular TV
operators, and this in turn does not allow for economy of scale for all parties concerned, be it
content providers, broadcasters, network providers or equipment manufacturers.
After over two years of requirement capture in DigiTAG (Digital Television Action Group) and
other fora, EACEM (European Association of Consumer Electronics Manufacturers) decided
to address this situation by developing a basic specification as a minimum platform, providing
secure reception of broadcast content and associated services. This includes both free to air
as well as pay TV services by means of the DVB common interface.

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This is in order to provide a stable base from which new applications and services can be built
up, and ensuring backwards compatibility for products in the market based on this
specification, thus ensuring that the consumer will continue to receive the services they have
grown accustomed to.
EACEM has taken into consideration all other documents and specifications that were freely
available from various bodies (NorDig Group, ANIEL, etc.) in order to develop a pan European
specification.
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DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION RECEIVERS
FOR THE DVB-T SYSTEM –
Part 1: Baseline receiver specification
1 Scope
This part of IEC 62216 specifies the baseline receiver 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 important versus those that are optional. The term “shall” is also used to
identify mandatory requirements that are inherited from other specifications that have greater
force.
This specification does not consider interactive applications and the data broadcasting that
would support them. Subtitling and teletext are considered to be components of TV services.
Standalone teletext services are not part of this standard.
This specification primarily addresses terrestrial delivery of digital transmissions.
This specification primarily addresses deployment in countries that use European Latin script
based languages.
2 Normative references
The following normative documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text,
constitute provisions of this part of IEC 62216. For dated references, subsequent
amendments to, or revisions of, any of these publications do not apply. However, parties to
agreements based on this part of IEC 62216 are encouraged to investigate the possibility of
applying the most recent editions of the normative documents indicated below. For undated
references, the latest edition of the normative document referred to applies. Members of IEC
and ISO maintain registers of currently valid International Standards.
IEC 60169-2, Radio-frequency connectors - Part 2: Coaxial unmatched connector
ISO/IEC 6937, Information technology – Coded graphic character set for text communication –
Latin alphabet
ISO/IEC 8859-9, Information technology – 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets –
Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5
ISO/IEC 11172-2, Information technology – Coding of moving pictures and associated audio
for digital storage media at up to about 1,5 Mbit/s – Part 2: Video
ISO/IEC 13818-1, Information technology – Generic coding of moving pictures and associated
audio information: systems
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ISO/IEC 13818-2, Information technology – Generic coding of moving pictures and associated
audio information: Video
ISO/IEC 13818-3, Information technology – Generic coding of moving pictures and associated
audio information: Audio
ITU-R BT.470-6, Conventional television systems
ITU-R BS.775-1, Multichannel stereophonic sound system with and without accompanying
picture
ITU-R BT.1119-2, Wide-screen signalling for broadcasting (Signalling for wide-screen and
other enhanced television parameters)
ITU-R BT.1359-1, Relative timing of
...