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{{Short description|Digital cable television standard}} {{Table Digital video broadcast standards}} '''Digital Video Broadcasting - Cable''' ('''DVB-C''') is the [[Digital Video Broadcasting|DVB]] European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of [[digital television]] over [[coaxial cable|cable]]. This system transmits an [[MPEG-2]] or [[MPEG-4]] family [[digital audio]]/[[digital video]] stream, using a [[Quadrature amplitude modulation|QAM modulation]] with [[channel coding]]. The standard was first published by the [[ETSI]] in 1994, and subsequently became the most widely used transmission system for digital cable television in Europe, Asia and South America.<ref name="DVB-C will surpass ...">{{cite web|url=http://nextvnews.com/dvb-c-will-surpass-usacute-cable-technologies-in-2013-in-latin-america/|title=DVB-C will surpass USΒ΄ cable technologies in 2013 in Latin America|date=2019-02-22|publisher=NexTV Latam|access-date=2019-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223074151/http://nextvnews.com/dvb-c-will-surpass-usacute-cable-technologies-in-2013-in-latin-america/|archive-date=2019-02-23|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is deployed worldwide in systems ranging from the larger cable television networks (CATV) down to smaller satellite master antenna TV ([[SMATV]]) systems.
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