Digital Terrestial Television is a platform in UK and it is a collection of free-to-air
services which is known as DTV services and it trades as Freeview. This service is run by equal five shareholders and they are ITV, Channel 4, BBC, Sky and the Argiva which is the operator of transmitter. This service s designed to market changes to the platform. This DTV service is responsible for all the market specifications such as Freeview. Freeview HD and the PVR brand. These all are the forthcoming HD channels.
Freeview HD is operating after its successful launch on BBC and it will be giving its services to all the regions by the completion of the year 2012. Freeview HD is the first operational TV services in the world which is using DVB-T2 standard and it requires the purchase of new equipment which is compatible with the receptions. The Freeview HD set top boxes and televisions are available in the market. Vestel is the first manufacturer who has gained Freeview HD certification for the set top box. But the first one to release the first Freeview HD receptions equipment was Humax. The set top boxes signal will be encoded with the MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level 4. This system of Freeview HD is designed such that it will allow all the variations of regional broadcast schedule. The bandwidth is allocated between the channels and it also depends upon the complexity of the images and it has the aim of maintaining a consistent quality and not only a specific bit rate.