Digital Video Broadcasting or DVB is a new standard for the encoding for transmission and decoding of TV signals.  There are 3 basic types DVB-S (for Satellite TV), DVB-C (for Cable TV), and DVB-T (for Terrestrial TV as used in Australia).

Useful Websites;

  • http://www.dvb.org/ - The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is an industry-led consortium of over 270 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others in over 35 countries committed to designing open technical standards for the global delivery of digital television and data services. Services using DVB standards are available on every continent with more than 220 million DVB receivers deployed.
  • http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Main_Page – Is a wiki that provides loots of useful information for setting up and installing MythTV.  Along with lots in info about various TV Cards.
  • http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page – Another wiki with Video resources for Linux.
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