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Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 Introduction

The TF 6000 PVRt digital receiver is fully compliant with the international Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) standard, and can receive digital broadcastings. For its operation, you need an antenna, which must be installed appropriately.

Unlike analog broadcastings, digital broadcastings are not all assigned to their own frequencies; 1instead, several television and radio broadcastings are transmitted through a single trans- ponder on a single wideband carrier.

NOTE A transponder is in fact a wireless device, which re- ceives and transmits radio signals at a prescribed fre- quency range. However, you may regard a transponder as a channel. One channel has one broadcasting in analog broadcast; on the other hand, one transponder has several broadcastings in digital broadcast. So the word service is used instead of channel to indicate a broadcasting in this document.

To help you with the choice and setting for broadcasting ser-

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