European High DefinitionTelevision Roadmap

21st January 2005

Date & Version

The Digital Interoperability Forum

• 18 members - ADB, BSkyB, Canal+, Flextech, Microsoft, Nagravision, NDS, ntl:, Numericable, Open TV, Pace, Premiere, Sky Italia, Telewest, TF1, TPS, ugc, Zetacast.

– Represent each sector of the DTV delivery chain– hardware, software, middleware, platform operators, content providers

• Major investors and innovators in digital TV

• Committed to developing industry–led solutions to interoperability

• At the vanguard of HDTV in Europe – BSkyB, Premiere, TPS to launch in 2005/6.

European HDTV Roadmap – Resolution

2004 2005 2006

720p/50

1080i/25

1080p/50

1080p/25

?

Production only at first

Production & Broadcast

European HDTV Roadmap – HD Compression

2004 2005 2006

MPEG-2

VC-1

MPEG-4/H.264

First MPEG-4Sample Chips

First VC-1Sample Chips

European HDTV Roadmap – Set-Top to TV Connector

2004 2005 2006

Component Video

HDMI/HDCP

DVI

European HDTV Roadmap – Native Flat Screen Display Resolutions

2004 2005 2006

1024*1280

1080*1920

Not

H

DH D

480*640

768*1024

576*720

PC Based display (V*H)

TV Based display (V*H)

The BSkyB HD platform at launch will support:Transport Stream

MPEG-2

Modulation DVB-S and DVB-S2

CODEC SD - MPEG-2HD –MPEG-2 and H.264

Resolution 720p/50 and 1080i/251

Audio MPEG1 layer 2 or Dolby Digital or Dolby Digital Plus audio decoding (2 channel or 5.1 channel)

CA DVB common scrambling algorithm with NDS CA

Middleware OpenTV

Video Output Digital - HD or SD via HDMI connector (with HDCP) Analogue will support SD only; via SCART and S-Video connectors

1 1080i/25 means 25 frames per second delivered by 50 interlaced fields per second