Mobile reception of Television signals

In the 50´s and 60´s when television reception became common, we found the first TV receivers in vehicles. Since the year 2000, terrestrial analog television is more often being replaced by digital standards. Digital television receivers used for automotive applications are equipped with far more electronic circuits to improve reception and picture quality not found in stationary receivers such as those in our homes. There are basically two effects which have a strong impact on the television reception performance and they are fading and the Doppler frequency shift. Antenna diversity is used for digital terrestrial mobile TV receivers to improve overall television reception in vehicles. Beside the present digital TV standards, new standards such as DVB-H and DMB-T are being specially designed for mobile TV applications to help establish TV reception in more and more vehicles.