EN 62216:2011

Digital terrestrial television receivers for the DVB-T system

IEC 62216:2009(E) specifies both Standard Definition and High Definition receivers for the DVB-T system. Subtitling and teletext are considered to be components of TV services. It addresses terrestrial delivery of digital transmissions and deployment in countries that use European Latin script based languages. Two types of systems are considered: - standard systems where services are all SD and - use well-established codecs. Standard receivers which can decode standard services are suitable for these systems; advanced systems where some services may use advanced codecs, for example to provide HD video. Advanced receivers which can decode advanced services are suitable for these systems.

Fernsehempfänger für das digitale terrestrische DVB-T-System

Récepteur de télévision numérique terrestre pour le système DVB-T

L'IEC 62216:2009 spécifie à la fois les récepteurs de définition normalisés et de haute définition pour le système DVB-T. Elle s’adresse: • aux diffuseurs et • aux fabricants de récepteurs. L’objectif étant de définir: • comment diffuser des émissions recevables par l’ensemble des récepteurs et permettre à ces derniers d’offrir aux téléspectateurs de bonnes fonctionnalités; • le comportement requis pour les récepteurs afin de fonctionner correctement avec les services diffusés et d’être attractifs pour les téléspectateurs. Pour éviter toute confusion, les expressions ʺdoitʺ, ʺil convient deʺ etc. sont utilisées de manière classique afin de distinguer les points importants de ceux qui le sont moins. Un récepteur de base prend en charge les caractéristiques obligatoires mais il ne prend pas en charge toutes les caractéristiques facultatives de la présente norme. L'introduction de caractéristiques facultatives fait partie de la stratégie de marketing du fabricant. Le sous-titrage et le système télétexte sont considérés comme composantes des services de télévision. La possibilité d’un service télétexte seul (sans contenu vidéo associé) n’est pas prise en compte. La présente norme concerne principalement la diffusion terrestre des transmissions numériques. La présente norme traite principalement du déploiement dans les pays qui utilisent des langues basées sur l’écriture latine Européenne. On considère deux types de système: • les systèmes normalisés dont les services sont tous SD et utilisent des codecs bien connus. Les récepteurs standard qui peuvent décoder des services standard conviennent pour ces systèmes; • les systèmes avancés où certains services peuvent utiliser des codecs avancés, par exemple pour fournir de la vidéo HD (haute définition). Les récepteurs avancés qui peuvent décoder des services avancés conviennent pour ces systèmes. Lorsqu'on utilise le terme ʺrécepteurʺ ou ʺdiffusionʺ sans qualificatif, cet énoncé s'applique également aux deux types de systèmes.

Sprejemniki digitalne prizemne televizije sistema DVB-T (IEC 62216:2009)

Ta mednarodni standard določa sprejemnike s standardno in visoko ločljivostjo sistema DVB-T. Nanaša se na: - izdajatelje televizijskega programa in - proizvajalce sprejemnikov. Cilj je opredeliti: - kako zagotavljati prenose, ki so sprejemnikom razumljivi in jim omogočajo, da dajejo svojim uporabnikom dobro zmogljivost; - vedenje sprejemnikov, ki je potrebno, da dobro delujejo pri teh prenosih in so privlačni za potrošnike. Da bi se izognili dvomu, se besede »naj«, »mora« itd. uporabljajo tradicionalno, da se obvezne zadeve ločijo od izbirnih. Osnovni sprejemnik podpira obvezne značilnosti, ne pa vseh izbirnih značilnosti iz tega standarda. Vključitev izbirnih značilnosti je del tržne strategije proizvajalca. Podnaslavljanje in teletekst se štejeta za sestavni del TV-storitev. Samostojne storitve teletekst (brez povezane videovsebine) niso del tega standarda. Ta standard predvsem obravnava prizemni prenos digitalnega oddajanja. Ta standard predvsem obravnava namestitev v državah, ki uporabljajo jezike, temelječe na evropski latinični pisavi. Obravnavana sta dva tipa sistemov: - standardni sistemi, kjer so vse storitve načrtovane in uporabljajo uveljavljene kodekse. Za te sisteme so primerni standardni sprejemniki, ki lahko dekodirajo standardne storitve; - napredni sistemi, kjer nekatere storitve lahko uporabljajo napredne kodekse, na primer za zagotavljanje videa HD. Za te sisteme so primerni napredni sprejemniki, ki lahko dekodirajo napredne storitve. Kjer se uporabljata izraza »sprejemnik« ali »oddajanje« brez oznake, navedba velja enako za oba tipa sistemov.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 21-Jul-2011
• Withdrawal Date: 01-Jan-2014
• ICS: 33.160.25 - Television receivers
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 100X - Audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment and related sub-systems
• Drafting Committee: IEC/TC 100 - IEC_TC_100
• Parallel Committee: IEC/TC 100 - IEC_TC_100
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 22-Jul-2011
• Completion Date: 22-Jul-2011
• Ref Project: SIST EN 62216:2011 - Digital terrestrial television receivers for the DVB-T system (IEC 62216:2009)

Relations

• Replaces: EN 62216-1:2002 - Digital terrestrial television receivers for the DVB-T system - Part 1: Baseline receiver specification
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2011
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SIST EN 62216-1:2003
Sprejemniki digitalne prizemne televizije sistema DVB-T (IEC 62216:2009)
Digital terrestrial television receivers for the DVB-T system (IEC 62216:2009)
Fernsehempfänger für das digitale terrestrische DVB-T-System (IEC 62216:2009)
Récepteur de télévision numérique terrestre pour le système DVB-T (CEI 62216:2009)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62216:2011
ICS:
33.160.25 Televizijski sprejemniki Television receivers
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 62216
NORME EUROPÉENNE
July 2011
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 33.160.25 Supersedes EN 62216-1:2002

English version
Digital terrestrial television receivers for the DVB-T system
(IEC 62216:2009)
Récepteur de télévision numérique Fernsehempfänger für das digitale
terrestre pour le système DVB-T terrestrische DVB-T-System
(CEI 62216:2009) (IEC 62216:2009)

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Ref. No. EN 62216:2011 E
Foreword
The text of document 100/1449/CDV, future edition 1 of IEC 62216, prepared by technical area 1,
Terminals for audio, video and data services and contents of IEC TC 100, Audio, video and multimedia
systems and equipment, was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and was approved by
CENELEC as EN 62216 on 2011-01-02.
This European Standard supersedes EN 62216-1:2002.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN and CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent
rights.
The following dates were fixed:
– latest date by which the EN has to be implemented
at national level by publication of an identical
(dop) 2011-10-02
national standard or by endorsement
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
(dow) 2014-01-02
with the EN have to be withdrawn
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62216:2009 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

The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.

NOTE  When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD
applies.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

- - Domestic and similar electronic equipment EN 50049-1 -
interconnection requirements:
Peritelevision connector
- - Common interface specification for EN 50221 -
conditional access and other digital video
broadcasting decoder applications

IEC 60958-1 - Digital audio interface - EN 60958-1 -
Part 1: General
IEC 61169-2 - Radio-frequency connectors - EN 61169-2 -
Part 2: Sectional specification - Radio
frequency coaxial connectors of type 9,52

IEC 61937 Series Digital audio - Interface for non-linear PCM EN 61937 Series
encoded audio bitstreams applying IEC 60958

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
ISO/IEC 13818-2 - Information technology - Generic coding of - -
moving pictures and associated audio
information -
Part 2: Video
ISO/IEC 13818-3 - Information technology - Generic coding of - -
moving pictures and associated audio
information -
Part 3: Audio
ISO/IEC 14496-3 - Information technology - Coding of audio-- -
visual objects -
Part 3: Audio
ISO/IEC 14496-10 - Information technology - Coding of audio-- -
visual objects -
Part 10: Advanced Video Coding

Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

ISO 639-2 - Codes for the representation of names of - -
languages -
Part 2: Alpha-3 code
ETSI EN 300 744 - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB): Framing - -
structure, channel coding and modulation for
digital terrestrial television

ETSI EN 300 468 - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB): - -
Specification for Service Information (SI) in
DVB systems
ETS EN 300 743 - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - Subtitling - -
systems
ETSI EN 300 706 - Enhanced teletext specification - -

ETSI EN 300 472 - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - - -
Specification for conveying ITU-R system B
teletext in DVB bitstreams
ETSI EN 300 294 - Television systems - 625 line television Wide - -
Screen Signalling (WSS)
ETSI EN 301 775 - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - - -
Specification for the carriage of Vertical
Blanking Information (VBI) data in DVB
bitstreams
ETSI EN 300 231 - Television systems - Specification of the - -
domestic video Programme Delivery Control
system (PDC)
ETSI TS 101 154 - Digital Video Broadcasting - -
(DVB);Specification for the use of Video and
Audio Coding in Broadcasting Applications
based on the MPEG-2 Transport Stream

ETSI TS 102 366 - Digital Audio Compression (AC-3, Enhanced - -
AC-3)
ETSI TS 101 699 - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - - -
Extensions to the common interface
specification
ETSI TR 101 211 - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Guidelines - -
on implementation and usage of Service
Information (SI)
ETSI TS 102 006 - Digital Video Broadcasting - -
(DVB);Specification for System Software
Update in DVB Systems
ETR 289 - Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) - - -
Support for use of scrambling and Conditional
Access (CA) within digital broadcasting
systems
ETR 162 - Digital broadcasting systems for television - -
sound and data services - Allocation of
Service Information (SI) codes for Digital
Video Broadcasting (DVB) systems

ITU-R BS.775-2 - Multichannel stereophonic sound system with - -
and without accompanying picture

ITU-R BT.470-7 - Conventional analogue television systems - -

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Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

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 sound and vision for - -
broadcasting
R 206-001 - Guidelines for implementation and use of the - -
common interface for DVB decoder
applications
CEA 770.3 - High definition TV analog component video - -
interface
CEA 861 - A DTV Profile for Uncompressed High Speed - -
Digital Interfaces
IEC 62216 ®
Edition 1.0 2009-05
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
Digital terrestrial television receivers for the DVB-T system

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ICS 33.160.25 ISBN 978-2-88910-643-1
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.8
INTRODUCTION.10
1 Scope and object.11
2 Normative references .11
3 Abbreviations and symbols .13
4 Receiver capabilities .15
4.1 Frequency spectrum.15
4.2 Conditional access .15
4.3 Return path .15
4.4 EPG (SI) .15
4.5 Auto installation.16
4.6 Teletext carried in digital streams.16
4.7 Content protection/copy management.16
4.8 Services .16
4.9 API.16
4.10 Over-air software update .16
4.11 Audio and video codecs .16
4.12 Future versions of this standard .17
5 Video system characteristics .17
5.1 General .17
5.2 Essential requirements .17
5.2.1 Standard services.17
5.2.2 Advanced services .17
5.3 Constraints and extensions .17
5.3.1 Support for rapid channel acquisition.17
5.3.2 Picture types .18
5.3.3 Compatibility.18
5.3.4 User data .19
5.3.5 Video alignment.19
5.3.6 Chroma sampling location .20
6 Video display formatting .21
6.1 General .21
6.2 Video format.21
6.2.1 General .21
6.2.2 Requirements for DVB compliance .21
6.3 Recommendations for signalling in the video stream .22
6.3.1 Sequence header .22
6.3.2 Sequence display extension .22
6.3.3 Constraints on the use of the picture display extension .23
6.3.4 Format switching .23
6.4 Video format signalling extensions .24
6.4.1 General .24
6.4.2 MPEG signalling .24
6.4.3 DVB signalling.24
6.4.4 Active format description .24
6.5 Recommendations for ISO/IEC 13818-1 signalling.32

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6.6 Alignment of SD video and graphics .32
6.6.1 Video with graphics .32
6.6.2 Uncertainty of position of graphics over video.32
6.7 Alignment of HD video and graphics.33
7 Audio system characteristics .33
7.1 General .33
7.2 Essential requirements .33
7.2.1 Requirements .34
7.2.2 Synchronisation.34
7.2.3 Audio metadata .34
7.2.4 Decoding requirements.34
7.3 Constraints and extensions .35
7.3.1 Digitally coded.35
7.3.2 Surround sound .35
7.3.3 AC-3 and Enhanced AC-3 audio .35
7.3.4 ISO/IEC 14496-3 audio.36
7.3.5 Receiver downmix .36
7.3.6 Digital audio output.36
7.4 Audio description.36
7.4.1 Background .36
7.4.2 Receiver implementation minima .37
7.4.3 Receiver mix AD signalling .37
7.4.4 Constraints on audio description stream coding.41
7.4.5 Receiver mix AD implementation notes.41
7.4.6 SI/PSI signalling .43
7.5 Audio only services .45
8 Multiplex and transport stream characteristics .45
8.1 Scope.45
8.2 Essential requirements .45
8.2.1 Multiplexing .45
8.2.2 Demultiplexing.46
8.3 Constraints and extensions .46
8.3.1 Multicomponent programs.46
9 Service and program specific information .47
9.1 General .47
9.1.1 General requirements .47
9.1.2 General receiver requirements .47
9.1.3 General broadcaster requirements.48
9.1.4 Notation.49
9.2 SI and PSI specification .49
9.2.1 Summary.49
9.2.2 Program association table .51
9.2.3 Program map table .51
9.2.4 Conditional access table.53
9.2.5 Network information table .54
9.2.6 Bouquet association table.56
9.2.7 Service description table .56
9.2.8 Event information table.59
9.2.9 Time and date table and time offset table .62

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9.2.10 Running status table.62
9.2.11 Private data.62
9.2.12 Overview of service-variation options .68
9.3 Receiver functions.69
9.3.1 Information typically available to the user .69
9.3.2 Service change.69
9.3.3 Parental control .72
9.3.4 Receiver behaviour when a service stops .72
9.4 Establishing and maintaining the network connection .73
9.4.1 Use of SI identifiers .73
9.4.2 Auto installation.74
9.4.3 Network evolution.76
9.4.4 Logical channel numbers (LCN).78
9.4.5 Recommendation for robust SI acquisition.82
9.5 User interface.84
9.5.1 Presentation of text .84
9.5.2 Information presentation.85
9.5.3 Service navigation .87
9.5.4 Display of time.88
9.6 Recording devices.88
9.6.1 General .88
9.6.2 Programming.88
9.6.3 Execution of recording.88
9.6.4 Control of analogue recorders .89
10 Subtitles .89
10.1 General .89
10.2 Broadcast specifications.89
10.2.1 DVB subtitles.89
10.2.2 Signalling .90
10.2.3 DDS .90
10.2.4 Recommendation.90
10.3 Receiver functions.90
10.3.1 Background .90
10.3.2 User control of receiver behaviour .91
10.3.3 Support for DDS .91
11 VBI based services.91
11.1 General .91
11.2 Broadcast specifications.91
11.3 Receiver functions.92
11.3.1 Processing capabilities .92
11.3.2 Control .92
11.4 Extended VBI format support.92
11.4.1 VPS.93
11.4.2 WSS.93
11.4.3 Teletext and teletext subtitles .93
12 RF-part and channel decoder .93
12.1 General .93
12.2 Frequencies and channel bandwidth.93
12.3 DVB-T modes.93

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12.4 Tuning procedure .94
12.5 Change of modulation parameters .94
12.6 Connector .94
12.7 Performance.94
12.7.1 Failure point criteria.94
12.7.2 C/N performance .94
12.7.3 Minimum receiver signal input levels .95
12.7.4 Maximum input level.95
12.7.5 Immunity to analogue and/or digital signals in other channels.95
12.7.6 Immunity to co-channel interference from analogue TV signals.96
12.7.7 Guard interval utilisation in single frequency networks.97
12.7.8 MFN multipath performance.97
13 Conditional access and the common interface .98
13.1 General .98
13.2 Minimum requirements .98
13.2.1 Analogue Copy Protection Resource .98
14 System software update .99
14.1 General .99
14.2 Minimum requirements .99
14.3 Recommendations for SSU operators.99
15 Application Programming Interface (API) .99
16 Connectors.100
16.1 Standard receivers .100
16.2 Advanced receivers .100
16.2.1 Without display.100
16.2.2 With display.101
Annex A (normative) SI character set.102
Annex B (normative) DVB-SI PDC descriptor .111
Annex C (normative) Subtitling .113
Annex D (informative) An example of frequencies and offsets. 130
Annex E (informative) Noise model . 131
Annex F (informative) An example of C/N-performance with a practical transmitter . 132
Annex G (informative) Practical 6-path channel models for fixed and portable channels. 133
Annex H (informative) Interfering analogue signals .134
Bibliography.135

Figure 1 – Relationship between digital video and analogue video .19
Figure 2 – Receiver and display format processing reference model .26
Figure 3 – HD Receiver and display format processing reference model .27
Figure 4 – Uncertainty of positioning graphics over video.33
Figure 5 – Illustration of control of audio level.38
Figure 6 – Mapping of pan byte onto sound presentation .41
Figure 7 – Example of PMT extract for main programme audio .44
Figure 8 – Example of PMT extract for audio description .44
Figure 9 – Service regionalisation.79
Figure C.1 – High level bitstream organisation.114

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Figure C.2 – Region depth selection .116
Figure C.3 – Mapping code strings to pixels in “requested” depth region.117
Figure C.4 – Mapping code strings to pixels.118
Figure C.5 – Subtitle reference decoder model .120
Figure C.6 – The two modelled decoding phases .121
Figure C.7 – Detail of data decoding phase .122
Figure C.8 – Disruption to display at start of new epoch.122
Figure E.1 – Tuner noise model .131
Figure H.1 – PAL interfering signals.134
Figure H.2 – SECAM L interfering signal.134

Table 1 – Broadcast overscan flags .20
Table 2 – Receiver overscan behaviour .20
Table 3 – Overscan signalling on HDMI .20
Table 4 – Horizontal scaling where format is signalled by the sequence header alone .22
Table 5 – Pan scan window .23
Table 6 – Non “full screen”.23
Table 7 – Formats described by the active_format description .25
Table 8 – Processing by STB connected to 4:3 TV.28
Table 9 – User options for displaying 16:9 on 4:3.29
Table 10 – User options for displaying >16:9 on 4:3.29
Table 11 – Processing by STB connected to 16:9 TV.30
Table 12 – WSS codes for aspect ratio .31
Table 13 – Values for other WSS bits .31
Table 14 – Audio description descriptor .38
Table 15 – Illustration of PES packet header .40
Table 16 – Key to symbols.49
Table 17 – Summary of required tables.50
Table 18 – Program descriptors .51
Table 19 – Elementary stream descriptors .51
Table 20 – Network descriptors (first loop).54
Table 21 – Transport stream descriptors (second loop).55
Table 22 – Service descriptors.57
Table 23 – Event information descriptors .60
Table 24 – Time offset table descriptors .62
Table 25 – Private SI recognised by this standard .63
Table 26 – Syntax of the eacem stream identifier descriptor .63
Table 27 – Syntax of the logical channel descriptor .64
Table 28 – Logical channel number .65
Table 29 – Syntax of the preferred name list descriptor .65
Table 30 – Syntax of the preferred name identifier descriptor .66
Table 31 – HD simulcast logical channel descriptor .67
Table 32 – Subtitle preference modes defined .70

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Table 33 – Receiver response to missing SI tables .83
Table 34 – Text field lengths.85
Table 35 – Delta values between picture failure point and reference BER .94
Table 36 – C/N (dB) for reference BER .95
Table 37 – Immunity to analogue signals on other channels.96
Table 38 – Immunity to digital signals on other channels .96
Table 39 – Immunity to co-channel interference from analogue signals.96
Table 40 – Long echo test profile.97
Table 41 – Short echo test profile .97
Table A.1 – Allowed character codes in SI text fields . 103
Table B.1 – Syntax of the PDC descriptor .111
Table C.1 – Additional display update budget for page/region operations.123
Table C.2 – Example subtitle system performance.126
Table F.1 – C/N (dB) for reference BER.132
Table G.1 – Approximate 6-tap channel for fixed reception (Ricean channel). 133
Table G.2 – Approximate 6-tap channel for portable reception (Rayleigh channel). .133

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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. Terrestrial
television has to migrate from analogue to digital in order to survive in the new information
society.
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.
Due to the multitude of communities, sometimes single operators, often on a co
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