Topfield DV3 Digital Terrestrial Receiver Personal Video Recorder TF 6000 PVRt - Manual (Page 9)

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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-