datacasting
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Datacasting (data broadcasting) is the transmission of data over a wide area using radio waves. It typically refers to supplemental information sent by television stations alongside digital terrestrial television (DTT) signals. However, datacasting can also be applied to digital data signals carried on analog TV or radio broadcasts.
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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Datacasting services around the world
- North America
- Ambient Information Network
- RBDS
- DirectBand
- MovieBeam
- TV Guide On Screen
- ATSC-M/H
- Qterics
- Australia
- Malaysia
- Middle East
- South Africa
- United Kingdom
- Worldwide
- Blockstream Satellite
- Outernet
- Advantages over Internet transmission
- Privacy
- Censorship
- Efficiency
- See also
- References
Datacasting (data broadcasting) is the transmission of data over a wide area using radio waves. It typically refers to supplemental information sent by television stations alongside digital terrestrial television (DTT) signals. However, datacasting can also be applied to digital data signals carried on analog TV or radio broadcasts.
== Overview ==
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