Test suite ensures DVB-T receiver compliance

Digital TV Labs will cut a major hurdle to market for receiver suppliers with the launch of the world's first pan-European DVB-T test suite, Evora, at this year's IBC. The test suite can ensure that DVB-T receivers are fully compliant with the real broadcast requirements of any European country in days rather than weeks, resulting in faster speed to market for higher quality products and dramatically reduced return rates. Evora addresses the problem posed by the growing number of DVB-T networks and increasing technical diversity across Europe.

Until now, testing methods were notoriously inefficient and expensive because they could only provide a snapshot of network characteristics at the time of the test.

Using Evora, Digital TV Labs can deliver complete country-by-country test coverage in the lab environment for all the service variations and boundary conditions of Europe's real broadcast conditions, as well as currently unimplemented network features.

The test suite uses thousands of test cases to test all the permutations and possible service scenarios of each country-specific network and covers the major specifications including E-Book, D-Book, NorDig Unified and DGTVi.

This results in a high quality product and reduces the need for costly and time consuming field testing.

Keith Potter, CEO of Digital TV Labs, commented: 'There is a struggle to understand the specific, and often idiosyncratic, DVB-T requirements of different countries and testing for Europe's multiple markets used to be an almost impossible task'.

'Through the launch of Evora we can help receiver suppliers to produce high quality, conformant products that deliver an exceptional user experience and benefit the reputation of the industry as a whole'.

More information will be available from Digital TV Labs on Stand 4.261h at IBC.